So it’s finally here: GPT-4. This is latest and greatest artificial intelligence system from OpenAI, and a successor to the A.I. model that powers the wildly popular ChatGPT.
OpenAI, the San Francisco A.I. lab that is now closely tied to Microsoft, says that GPT-4 is much more capable than the GPT-3.5 model underpinning the consumer version of ChatGPT. For one thing, GPT-4 is multi-modal: it can take in images as well as text, although it only outputs text. This opens up the ability of the A.I. model to “understand” photos and scenes. (Although for now this visual understanding capability is only being offered through OpenAI's partnership with Be My Eyes, a free mobile app for the visually impaired.)
