GPT-4 is available and can be used by all registered ChatGPT-Plus users. GPT-4 was publicly presented on a YouTube livestream from OpenAI on March 14, 2023. Even earlier, at the beginning of March, the rumor mill was brewing after large language models were presented as a disruptive force for companies at the Microsoft event “AI in Focus — Digital Kickoff” — and Andreas Braun mentioned in a subordinate clause that the immediate release of GPT-4 was imminent:
“We will be presenting GPT-4 next week, where we have multimodal models that will offer completely different options — videos, for example.”
- Dr. Andreas Braun, CTO Microsoft Germany
In particular Following the announcement, there was a lot of discussion on LinkedIn and Twitter about the new features GPT-4 brings. The Microsoft CTO's statement suggested that GPT-4 would offer new options specifically for creating video and audio formats.
The previous versions GPT-3 and GPT-3.5 already impress with their eloquence, quick reactions and the wide range of applications. The new options GPT-4 offers are explained below:
What can GPT-4 do?
According to OpenAI, GPT-4 generally has the following capabilities:
The GPT-4 can solve difficult problems with greater accuracy thanks to its wider general knowledge and problem-solving capabilities.
OpenAI also addresses the following three core areas in more detail: “Creativity”, “Visual Inputs” & “Longer Context”
creativity
- “GPT-4 is more creative and collaborative than ever before. It can work with users to create, edit, and review creative and technical writing tasks, such as composing songs, writing screenplays, or learning a user's writing style. ”
Visual inputs
- “GPT-4 can accept images as input and generate labels, classifications, and analyses.
Example: If you upload an image that shows flour, eggs, butter, and milk, GPT-4 is able to make suggestions about what you can do with these foods:
- Pancakes or waffles
- Crepes
- French toast
- omelet or frittata
- Quiche
- Custard or pudding
- Cakes or cupcakes
- Muffins or bread cookies or biscuits”
At present, GPT-4/ChatGPT does not yet allow you to upload images or documents yourself in order to have them evaluated. However, this may change in a timely manner.
Longer context
- GPT-4 is able to process more than 25,000 words of text, enabling use cases such as creating long-form content, advanced conversations, and searching and analyzing documents.
More abilities
- GPT-4 can identify humor:
During the initial presentation of GPT-4, an example of AI's understanding of humor was shown. It should be borne in mind that humor is very abstract and even among people it is often discussed what counts as humor and what does not. The fact that AI can identify humor — or take steps in that direction — is a major milestone. During the presentation by OpenAI, the sense of humor was presented using an example: GPT-4 was able to describe why a comic shown was considered funny.
- GPT-4 can check contracts and detect errors:
In this way, GPT-4 was able to immediately find weaknesses in an Ethereum contract within a few seconds.
- Create parts of program code:
Extending existing code to include requirements works very well: For example, changing and creating database queries
- Documenting program code:
Documenting program code adequately and well is sometimes a time-consuming task that can ideally be taken over by GPT-4 — as internal tests carried out by us have shown.
- email templates create:
Generating email templates is not an unusual or new use case for using ChatGPT. But GPT-4 is not only good at designing classic emails, but is also developed to such an extent that it can have a certain “sensitivity.” Ideal for formulating email texts on difficult topics that aren't easy for you — or at least provide inspiration for them.
- new potentialities The visual Communication:
ChatGPT recently (December 2024) introduced real-time video, screen sharing, and image uploads in the mobile app — ideal for visual communication, presentations, or sharing complex content. These features are available to Team, Plus, and Pro users (except in the EU, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, and Liechtenstein) and are subject to daily usage limits.
- Finding titles and titles (at moinAI)
We also use ChatGPT for internal purposes. For example, to find inspiration for suitable headlines and titles for new categories in our product moinAI. GPT-4 can even give good advice when it comes to choosing the right emoji.
When was GPT-4 officially unveiled?
GPT-4 was presented for the first time on March 14, 2023 at 9 pm via a YouTube live format from OpenAI. The recording is here visible.
What can GPT-4 not do?
Similar to GPT-3 in conjunction with ChatGPT, there is the problem that artificial intelligence sometimes comes up with content and presents it as facts. At this point, too, it is important to always carry out a fact-check before trusting the information provided and disseminating it to others.
How can I use GPT-4 for free?
GPT-4 will initially only be available to users of the paid version of ChatGPT (ChatGPT Plus), meaning that it is currently not possible to use it for free. However, even with GPT-Plus users, access may be restricted if traffic is too high. Something similar is already known about ChatGPT with the previous GPT version.
GPT-4 will not be available for free use of ChatGPT for the time being and it is currently unknown when and if this will change.
What should be considered when using GPT-4?
As mentioned above, it is important to review information presented as facts.
In addition, the output of the AI, i.e. the answer that ChatGPT plays, is only as good as the input is. This means that if the task/question that GPT-4 receives via chat is not sufficiently and well described, the result will suffer. Sentences or keywords that you use to get an answer from ChatGPT are also known as prompts (singular: prompt). The more precise and better the prompt is, the more can be expected from the GPT-4 response.
What does GPT stand for?
GPT stands for “Generative Pre-trained Transformer” and refers to a family of large neural networks developed by OpenAI to handle natural language processing tasks such as word generation, translation, and text classification.
What is GPT-3?
GPT-3 is a model in the GPT series and was released in 2020. It contains 175 billion parameters and was the largest and most powerful language model on the market before GPT-4 and GPT-4o. GPT-3 has achieved impressive results in many NLP tasks, such as translation, text completion and question-answer tasks, and is an important milestone in the development of artificial intelligence and natural language processing.
GPT-4 vs. GPT-3
According to OpenAI, GPT-4 is a significant increase over the previous model:
“We spent 6 months making GPT-4 more secure and customized. According to our internal analysis, GPT-4 is 82% less likely to respond to requests for illegal content and 40% more likely to provide factual answers than GPT-3.5. ”
The self-test also shows that GPT-4 seems much more complex and intelligent. CEO Patrick Zimmermann has tested the new model himself and is convinced: “GPT-4 understands more complex queries better. You can incorporate a lot of context into the prompt; the so-called instructions can be significantly more complex than before.” Why is that: GPT-3, which was considered the largest language model at the time, was trained with 175 billion parameters. By way of comparison, GPT-4 is trained with 100 trillion parameters.
Which is better now?
Both GTP-3 and GTP-4 each have advantages and disadvantages that should be considered when choosing the appropriate model. While GTP-3 can solve fundamental problems faster due to its smaller number of parameters and data sets, GTP-4 offers higher accuracy for more demanding tasks due to its larger set of parameters and larger data set volume.
There is therefore no uniform recommendation as to which model is more suitable. GTP-3 is often the better choice for simpler tasks, while GTP-4 is preferred when higher accuracy is important for more complex tasks.
What is GPT-4o?
GPT-4o (the “o” stands for “omni”) is OpenAI's latest and most powerful AI model. It was released on May 13, 2024 and can currently be used in both the free and paid versions of ChatGPT. However, it should be borne in mind that the use of GPT-4o in the free plan is only limited and possible with less usage capacity. GPT-4o is a multimodal language model and can process not only text but also code, images, audio, and video. Users can now also speak directly to GPT-4o, as spoken language processing is now possible. However, for now, this feature is only available for paid versions of GPT. In terms of performance, speed and the quality of responses, the model far surpasses its predecessors. Among other things, grammar and formulations in languages other than English are also said to have significantly improved.
GPT-4 vs. GPT-4o
With the release of GPT-4o, the question is whether the new model will now replace GPT-4. In fact, the two language models complement each other well and each have their own advantages and disadvantages.
GPT-4o has the big advantage that it is both faster and cheaper than GPT-4. In addition, unlike GPT-4, it offers image editing features, surpasses GPT-4 in benchmarks such as MMLU and HumanEval, and performs better on multilingual and visual tasks.
GPT-4, on the other hand, has the clear advantage that it can reproduce data in real time at any time because it has permanent access to the Internet. Even though GPT-4o now also has access to the Internet, this access is severely limited for free users. After reaching the limit, GPT automatically switches to the 4o-mini model, which has no Internet access yet.
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