ChatGPT is back in the headlines! Open AI, the company behind the popular chatbot, has now introduced a powerful new language model: GPT-4.

On March 14, GPT-4 showed the world how smarter it is than the previous GPT-3.5. One of its best new features is that it can understand pictures. For example, if you show a picture of a phone using the wrong charger (充电器), GPT-4 can tell why the picture looks strange or funny.

But GPT-4’s developments don’t stop there. The new language model can code (用代码编写) classic games like Tetris (俄罗斯方块) in a matter of minutes, and produce the code and layout (布局) for a website based on a hand-made drawing. It can also change the tone (语气) and style based on what you ask it to do. GPT-4 is much easier for students to cheat (作弊) than the older GPT at passing tests, which may worry teachers. According to CNN, GPT-4 did really well on a law school test, with a score in the top 10 percent of test takers. But GPT-3.5 only got a score in the bottom 10 percent.

GPT-4 will also see greater use as a tool to power other apps and services. For example, the language learning app Duolingo plans to use GPT-4 in their upcoming Duolingo Max function. Users can learn languages by talking with AI. Another app, Be My Eyes, will have a digital assistant (数字助手) to help blind people better understand the world around them. The government of Iceland also plans to use GPT-4 to protect the Icelandic language.

There are still problems with the new language model, however. GPT-4 still struggles to get completely correct answers, especially with newer information after September 2021. GPT-4 also sometimes “hallucinates (产生幻觉)”, meaning that it will insist that wrong information is true.

Nobody likes bullying. But bullying is a big problem around the world. According to the report, for about 100 students, there are 10 students who suffer from bullying in the US.

Nathan Fellars is a student in the eighth grade at Centennial Middle School in Utah, US. When he sees classmates suffering from bullying, he knows he has to do something. “People often do something with bullying after it happens. I want to see if there is a way to reduce bullying before it happens.”

After studying more about the reasons of bullying, he has an idea to make the app Bully Block. On the app, students can share their lives. They can talk about people they meet, and AI reads all of them. Only nice words can be seen. Fellars believes that this will slowly stop bullying both online and in school.

“I want to see teachers and students use my app,” says Fellars, “I love knowing that my idea can help somebody else in the world.”

【推荐2】Teachers and headmasters in Chinese schools are asked to eat with students in dining rooms at every meal. The new rule was carried out on April 1, 2019. According to the Ministry of Education, the introduction of the rule is a way of making sure of the safety, nutrition and health levels of school food.

School leaders from kindergartens to high schools should get together with students during school meals. The plan will guide them to pay more attention to food safety at school.

This move came after a list of school food safety problems in the past few years. In March, 2019, moldy (发霉的) food was found in a primary school dining room in Chengdu. The news led to people’s worries. Parents asked to make sure of school food safety.

Under the new rule, schools are asked to tell where the food comes from, who offers it and other information. The rule says schools should help students get into healthy eating habits. It also invites parents to eat with students at school to make them less worried.

In the United States, obesity rates(肥胖率) have kept rising over the past thirty years. The new law introduced by Michelle Obama has pushed schools to make low-calorie(卡路里) menus. Even the healthiest choices are commonly provided by large food companies.

Schools in Japan also give children a homemade meal for lunch. The food is grown locally and almost is never frozen. The meals are often made by cooks from the beginning. And they’re balanced but heavy on rice, vegetables and fish.

【推荐3】Here is a recipe:

Ingredients:

2 potatoes; 1 egg; 2 spoons of flour (面粉); 3 spoons of vegetable oil (植物油); 1 spoon of salt.

Instructions:

Peel the potatoes and cut them up. Cook them for 20～25 minutes and put them into a bowl.

Break the egg into the bowl. Also add the salt and flour to it.

Mix them all up.

Put the pan (平底锅) on the gas cooker (煤气灶) and turn on the gas cooker.

When the pan is warm, pour the vegetable oil into it.

Then pour the mixture in the bowl into the pan when the oil is at a high temperature.

Turn it over from time to time. Bake (烘焙) it for about five minutes.

Finally, you can enjoy the delicious pancake.

【推荐1】Do you argue with your parents about clearing the table or doing the washing-up, making your bed or tidying your room?

Do your parents find it hard to understand that you use social networking sites or hang out with friends all the time? If you can’t see their point of view, then our new Family Solutions app can help. With the Family Solutions app, teenagers and parents look at typical family arguments from both sides and find a good solution. The app gives you tips and helps you make better choices, but it also helps your parents to see situations from your point of view.

How does it work? You read different types problems and then choose an answer from different options. The app explains why one answer is the best and why other answers aren’t so good. Just imagine this situation: you’re getting ready to go out with friends but your parents want you to go to your grandparents. Do you say “We always go there at the weekend. I’m meeting my friends today.” or do you say “OK, we can go there today, but I’d like to hang out with my friends tomorrow.” The first option doesn’t make your parents or you feel good, but the second option makes everybody happy.

In the App store, you can also find the Family Solutions app online—just type “family Solution app” into your web browser and then follow the instructions on the screen.

【推荐3】“I don't like my parents. They always tell me I should do this, and should not do that. It sometimes makes me angry,” said Wang Ping, a middle school student in Guangzhou. Do you have the same problem? P erhaps your parents had the same problem when they were your age long ago. Why does it seem that some parents are not so friendly in their children's eyes?

One of the biggest problems is when someone becomes a parent, he/she likes worrying about things. They worry about everything about you from the time you were born. They do a lot for you, though something would make you angry, because they care about you and worry about you. They worry about your choice of friends, food you eat, your work at school, how much sleep you get, etc. All these things are part of your life. They want you to grow up healthily and happily.

So how can you make things easier on yourself？It's easier than you think. Just make sure your parents know what you're doing. Get them to know your friends. Phone them if you stay somewhere else late so that your parents don't call every hospital in the phone book looking for you. Say sorry to them when you make mistakes. Take responsibility(责任) for what you have done. Talk about your ideas with them. They may talk about theirs with you.

Most of all, try to think about why your parents do this or do that. They are still practicing being parents and need help you can give them. Someday, when you become a parent, they may be able to help you know how to get on with your children.