The hottest AI technology foundation, OpenAI’s GPT, received a major update on Tuesday, now available in a premium version. ChatGPT chatbot.
The new GPT-4 can generate much longer lines of text, respond when people feed it images, and is designed to do a better job of avoiding the AI ​​pitfalls seen in the earlier GPT-3.5. OpenAI said Tuesday. For example, on the bar exams that attorneys must take to practice law, the GPT-4 ranks in the top 10% of scores, compared to the bottom 10% for the GPT-3.5, the AI ​​research firm said.
GPT stands for Generative Pretrained Transformer, a reference to the fact that it can generate text on its own, and that it uses AI technology called Transformers, which was developed by Google. It’s a type of artificial intelligence called a large linguistic model that’s trained on huge chunks of data collected from the internet, learning mathematically to spot patterns and reproduce styles.
OpenAI has made its GPT technology available to developers for years, but ChatGPT offered an easy interface that sparked a lot of interest, experimentation, and concern about the downsides of the technology.
OpenAI got another boost when Microsoft announced in February that it was using GPT technology in its Bing search engine, including ChatGPT-like chat features. Microsoft said on Tuesday that it uses GPT-4 to run Bing. Together, OpenAI and Microsoft present a The main threat to Google searchbut Google also has its own large language model technology, including a A chatbot called Bard that Google is a private experiment.