ChatGPT AI, now available to the public, beats previous app records
| Published date | 20 March 2023 |
| Publication title | Star, The (Johannesburg, South Africa) |
The implications of the versatile ChatGPT are far-reaching, with many people becoming concerned about their profession, while academic institutions are rethinking their assessment strategies.
Meanwhile, Microsoft is embedding ChatGPT in many of its products, such as Bing, Azure, Excel and Word.
The new ChatGPT-4
On March 14, OpenAI released ChatGPT-4, a much more powerful tool, as successor to ChatGPT.
Open AI describes it as “a massive leap in the field of natural language processing (NLP)” and believes that “this model, with its ability to understand and generate human-like text, has the potential to revolutionise the way we interact with machines and automate various language-based tasks.”
The “Chat” in the name emphasises that it is again a conversational computer interface, while “GPT-4” refers to the “generative pre-trained transformer version 4”.
It includes the analysis of vast quantities of information from across the internet to determine how to generate human-sounding text and provide detailed responses to questions from users.
ChatGPT-4 can handle larger and much more complex interactions and queries and can solve difficult problems with greater accuracy due to its broader general knowledge and problem-solving abilities. ChatGPT-4 is also more creative, collaborative and more human, according to OpenAI.
More difficult to trick
It is known that chatbots are often easily led astray to provide answers outside of their boundaries.
Since GPT-4 has been trained on numerous malicious prompts, it is much better on “factuality, steerability, and refusing to go outside of guardrails”.
A better memory
Large language models are usually trained on millions of web pages, books, and other data, but during a conversation they are limited with regard to how much they can keep “in mind”.
In ChatGPT-3.5 it was 4 096 tokens or about 8 000 words or four to five pages of a book. This often led to the AI losing track of earlier answers. GPT-4 has a maximum count of 32 768 (215) tokens, which is about 64 000 words or 50 pages of text.
More multilingual
Until now the AI world was very much dominated by English, but GPT-4 is truly multilingual and can answer questions with high accuracy across 26 languages.
Different “personalities”
“Steerability” is an important concept in AI and refers to its capacity to change its behaviour on demand. GPT-4 integrates steerability more...
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