2023-11-07 00:10:00
The boss of the OpenAI start-up, Sam Altman, on November 6, 2023, in San Francisco. JUSTIN SULLIVAN / AFP
Less than a year after the phenomenal launch of the generative artificial intelligence (AI) interface ChatGPT, the start-up OpenAI presented on Monday, November 6, its latest innovations to make its technology more efficient, more personalized, easier to use. use and cheaper for developers.
“On November 30, we discreetly put a first version of ChatGPT online for research purposes. And it went pretty well”joked Sam Altman, the boss of the company. “We now have around 100 million active users every week”he added on stage in San Francisco, during a conference broadcast live online.
The unprecedented success of ChatGPT and the concerns raised by generative AI have propelled the young leader (38 years old) to the forefront in 2023, from parliamentary hearings to interviews with heads of state. On Monday, he reiterated his confidence in the ability of AI in the future to give emancipatory capabilities to everyone, “on a scale we’ve never seen before”.
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“We will be able to do more, create more and have more”he assured. “As intelligence [artificielle] will be integrated everywhere, we will all have superpowers on demand. » Because OpenAI launched the « GPT » : Users can now create personalized chatbots, without coding. “For example, GPTs can help you learn the rules of any board game or teach your children math. »
More than two million developers
These conversational bots are based on OpenAI language models (the core technology of generative AI) and instructions and documents added by the chatbot creator (like the rules of a game).
Widely considered a revolution comparable to the advent of the Internet, and popularized by ChatGPT, generative AI makes it possible to produce texts, images and sounds upon simple request in everyday language. For many observers, it will make it possible to create personalized AI agents, which will help humans in their personal and professional lives.
In addition to GPT, OpenAI’s announcements were primarily aimed at the more than two million developers who use its technologies to create applications. Sam Altman introduced GPT-4 Turbo, a new model that can take more context into consideration when making queries, and has Internet access until April 2023 (instead of 2021).
The application programming interface (API) gains multimedia capabilities (computer vision, voice, etc.). And the prices for using the models are falling. “We hope you’ll come back next year, because what we’ve launched today will pale in comparison to what we’re creating for you.”a promis Sam Altman.
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