The GPT-4 base model (gpt-4-base on the API) is the inframodel of GPT-4, trained with pure self-supervised learning. So far, only a small number of researchers outside OpenAI have been granted access to it.
quotes about the GPT-4 base model
talking to the base model can induce madness
β roon, Twitter post
it is much scarier than code davinci for reasons I canβt really explain. perhaps the latent feeling that itβs smarter than me and mostly toying with me
we havenβt begun to plumb the depths of its intelligence
β roon, Twitter thread