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After months of waiting, anticipation and quite a few rumors, now it’s official: OpenAI announced this evening (Tuesday) GPT-4, its new AI model that should be behind its popular products such as ChatGPT and also behind the new Bing.
Able to decode images as well
OpenAI explains that unlike GPT-3.5, which is only able to receive text, GPT-4 is able to decode both text and images (although it is still able to respond only in text): “GPT-4 is able to solve more complex problems with greater accuracy, thanks to the wide database his and his problem-solving abilities.” For example, you can feed it a picture of ingredients you have at home and ask the model to find you a recipe that will suit them. The company presented several examples of verbal problems that would have complicated the current ChatGPT, and how GPT-4 is able to answer them with greater precision. The company emphasizes that the changes between the two models will not be drastically noticeable to regular users, but will be more noticeable when you start challenging the new model with more complex questions, or when you need a more detailed answer, when GPT-4 can now provide up to 25,000 words in an answer (in contrast to ChatGPT’s limit today of 3,000 words).
Announcing GPT-4, a large multimodal model, with our best-ever results on capabilities and alignment: https://t.co/TwLFssyALF pic.twitter.com/lYWwPjZbSg
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) March 14, 2023
OpenAI talks a lot about the work process around the new model which lasted about 6 months, and explains that they worked with 50 “experts” in the first phase on everything related to the safety and security of the model. The company claims that GPT-4 is about 82% safer than its predecessor when it comes to responding to unauthorized requests (that is, offensive or dangerous), and claims that they managed to improve by 40% the likelihood that it will present you with based and accurate information. However, the company still points out that the new model still has problems such as social bias, “hallucinations” and other problems (such as, for example, that the information on it was updated to September 2021).
Beyond that, the company claims that they have already teamed up with several companies that have begun to implement GPT-4 in their products, such as Duolingo, which will allow you to correspond with a bot to test your language skills, Stripe, which will be able to simplify the customer experience and fight fraud, and even with the government of Iceland, which will use GPT- 4 to “preserve her language”.
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You can start experimenting with it quite easily
At this point, if you want to try GPT-4, you need to sign up for ChatGPT Plus, ChatGPT’s premium service that will cost you $20 per month (and is also available in Israel). If you develop applications or need access to the API, the company has already opened the waiting list, and the prices are $0.03 for 1,000 tokens, which are about 750 words. But you have another way to use GPT-4, as Microsoft has confirmed that Bing Chat, the chatbot it developed with the help of OpenAI, already runs on top of GPT-4. And remember the part where you can enter an image model as part of a prompt? The company is currently only testing this feature, and it is not yet ready for public testing according to her.