One of the most interesting things for me over the past 18 months was seeing the difference between this behavior in GPT-3.5 and 4 (especially the early version

One of the most interesting things for me over the past 18 months was seeing the difference between this behavior in GPT-3.5 and 4 (especially the early versions of it). You jumped from being extremely context sensitive to leading questions to almost ornery in its stubbornness and disagreement. Was one of the big early indicators to me significant differences were occurring between the two. I really do wonder just how harmful the disconnect has been between people hearing accurate praise about GPT-4 powered agents and then interacting with GPT-3 level agents and assuming the same competencies. GPT-3 was a very convincing text generator with lackluster reasoning capabilities, but 4 has significant reasoning capabilities and is less prone to parroting. But the majority of users are likely interacting with 3 because it's free. It's been very hard to explain to lay audiences the vast difference between two similarly branded products.