GPT-4 is here. The co-founder of the start up OpenAI, Greg Brockman, announced the news on Twitter on Tuesday, two days before the Microsoft conference -his partner- which was precisely going to be the opportunity to find out more.
OpenAI has finally decided to take the initiative and reveal, before the release to the general public, what the successor to ChatGPT, technically called GPT-3.5 turbo, will offer.
A subtle improvement
An example of the new mount’s abilities? GPT-4 passed the bar exam with a score close to the top 10% when its predecessor was around the bottom 10%.
But OpenAI prefers to announce it from the beginning: there will be no “wow” effect with this new tool.
The difference appears when the complexity of the task increases.
Here again, its creators had fun making it pass a battery of tests, in this case tests on biology, law, economics, or even literature.
The results show that GPT-4 does much better than its predecessor in law or chemistry. They also demonstrate that they cannot, on the other hand, surpass their older son’s mediocre results on certain tests such as a college math test.
Risks “similar” to those of ChatGPT
The other novelty is also the arrival of visual inputs. Concretely, therefore, you can add images to the text that GPT-4 will be able to recognize. So we can imagine that he will be able to identify an object, explain its utility or its use, or even understand a written language.
But again, OpenAI promises that its inventions are much less than for ChatGPT. Like its predecessor, GPT-4 has to make do with a pre-September 2021 database, even if its creator suggests it may know of certain later events.
“GPT-4 presents risks similar to those of previous models, such as the generation of harmful advice, code with errors or inaccurate information”, insists OpenAI, which, however, announces that it has tested it with fifty experts to track dead ends .
GTP-4 should also be a bit smarter than its predecessor and harder to “jailbreak” – that is, to get around the rules.
The new version is currently not available to everyone, you must request access on the waiting list.
Source: BFM TV
