The American AI company OpenAI presented GPT-4 on Tuesday – the new version of its chatbot, which understands not only human speech but also images.
While the internet is buzzing with excitement, there are critical points to remember.
Before it gets really serious, humor is required…
The jokes tested in the image gallery (above) confirm that GPT-4 is already integrated into the new Microsoft search engine Bing and its AI chatbot is. Because the answers of both AI chatbots are almost identical. It should be noted that the Bing chatbot doesn’t skimp on emojis, whereas you have to ask ChatGPT for them first.
Greg Brokman, president and co-founder of OpenAI, said during Tuesday’s official presentation:
Two surprising examples:
However, there is one big but: Such image submissions are not yet publicly available, but are only available to selected testers (“Research Preview”).
The makers of the smartphone app ‘Be My Eyes’, aimed at the blind and visually impaired, are planning a sensible application of AI technology. To date, a global community of millions of volunteers helps recognize images submitted through live chat. The “Virtual Volunteer” feature will now be based on OpenAI’s GPT-4 language model. The test phase is already underway.
Anyone who wants to try ChatGPT can do so for free. But that changes with the new version, GPT-4. To chat with the AI chatbot, which according to the developers has been massively pimped, you have to pay at least $ 20: that’s how much the “ChatGPT Plus” subscription costs, which can be canceled monthly.
Science is excluded:
As mentioned earlier, GPT-4 is also integrated into Microsoft’s new Bing search engine. To try out the AI there for free, you need to request access.
OpenAI will GPT-4 as programming interface (API) make it available to independent software developers so that they can integrate the AI into their own applications and services. There is also a waiting list for those interested to sign up. The catch: Patience is required. The “roll out” is gradual and OpenAI reserves the right to prioritize interesting projects.
GPT-4 (like previous software versions) handles natural language by machine. But how do you measure this ability? This is where the standardized scientific measurement and evaluation method MMLU comes into play.
In concrete terms, the AI must answer challenging questions that cover multiple areas of knowledge. The solution requires deep skills. A simple linguistic understanding is not enough.
And according to OpenAI, GPT-4 is way ahead of other language processing models. This applies to English and many other languages.
OpenAI itself points this out and warns that the language model still tends to fabricate information and could also write problematic texts.
The AI still reflects (human) biases in the huge data set it has been trained on. And she hallucinates, that is, she makes up plausible-sounding falsehoods. In other words, anyone who asks the AI a difficult question without knowing the answer can count on false information.
The OpenAI boss tweeted about the new ChatGPT:
If you ask about the start date of a particular movie, ChatGPT, unlike the Bing chatbot, responds gently and points out your own limitations.
Rather than aggressively questioning user input, as with Bing, the human ChatGPT operators have “injected” a lot of restraint into the AI.
In the technical report on GPT-4, OpenAI writes:
After all, the profit-oriented American company promises a piece of transparency. The report says:
AI remains unpredictable, but that hasn’t stopped countless startups and other for-profit companies from incorporating the software into their own services.
Two examples:
“Language models will soon find their way into the economy,” says German AI expert Gallwitz. The computer science professor says that in the future we will deal with computers and other hardware almost as naturally as we do with our fellow human beings. And he says:
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On the one hand, the program includes the use of language models developed by Google. The internet group also offers a development environment (“MakerSuite”) that allows you to build your own AI applications.
With the AI initiative, Google is countering an advance from Microsoft. The world’s largest software group, left behind by Google in key business areas such as online advertising and web search, is trying to replace traditional Google searches with searches on an AI system with the help of California start-up OpenAI.
The Google initiative also includes so-called generative AI, i.e. the generation of content using artificial intelligence. The most prominent example of generative AI is OpenAI’s text robot ChatGPT. Google’s text robot is called “Bart”, but unlike ChatGPT, it is not yet available to the general public.
In the future, Google will make corresponding features available to its customers using the “Google Workplace” office suite. For example, longer e-mail exchanges can be summarized at the touch of a button or the results can be transferred to a presentation. The scope and tonality can be changed.
Google has not yet announced prices for the AI interfaces and development kits on Tuesday. These will be published at a later date.
(awp/sda/dpa)
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I’m Ella Sammie, author specializing in the Technology sector. I have been writing for 24 Instatnt News since 2020, and am passionate about staying up to date with the latest developments in this ever-changing industry.
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