GPT-4 has finally arrived! It leaves ChatGPT in the dust. It can convert a drawing on a napkin into a functional website. It can even explain to you a joke from a series of images. So, let's find out exactly what GPT-4 actually is.
OpenAI ran a developer live stream that not only introduced this multimodal AI, they also ran a demo to demonstrate how it's one of the most powerful artificial intelligence engines to this day. It's no surprise that the whole internet, Twitter especially, has gone insane hearing this news. ChatGPT was only released recently, with Bing AI following.
In this article, we are going to cover what GPT-4 actually is, and how it's different from previous GPT versions such as GPT-3 and GPT-3.5, and I've also gained access to test it out. So, I'll demo some of its use cases too.
GPT-4 Compared to Previous Models
Let's start off with GPT-4, In comparison to its previous models. GPT-4 multimodal now. This simply means that unlike previous versions of GPT, which were only text-based, GPT-4 can accept and process images as well as text. I wouldn't be surprised if there's an audio component to this as well.
GPT-4 Capabilities
OpenAI simply did a demonstration showcasing a few examples of their image-to-text processing.
Demonstration 1: Explaining What's in an Image
The first one is on their website, where they gave AI the difficult task of explaining a joke based on a series of images. This image is of an iPhone, but it's charging with a VGA cable, and GPT-4 accurately was able to identify all the elements in the photo as well as explain the context of the joke:
While this sounds pretty simple, this is something that's almost unheard of in previous versions of AI. And I guess that reCAPTCHA will now have a run for its money, trying to detect not just bots, but artificial intelligence.
Demonstration 2: Creating a Website from a Piece of Paper
The second demo is where the real magic happened. OpenAI showed how you could draw a picture of a website on a napkin or maybe a piece of paper, then you can take a photo of it and send it to GPT-4:
You can ask it to produce a functional website; in this case, it was a joke's website in just 10 to 20 seconds. GPT-4 produced all the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code to reproduce the website, and then it was copy-pasted into an editor and showcased as a functional product:
As a developer, I have to say I'm very impressed with this. This is something not very easily done.
I've seen some really cool examples already on Twitter, like Pietrio Scherano, who was able to create the game "Pong" within 60 seconds of using GPT-4:
GPT-4 For Education
OpenAI has also showcased some of the companies that are already working with them to be able to use GPT-4 in their products. These companies have integrated it into services; one of them is Khan Academy. They've integrated it very similarly to ChatGPT but with more customization to work as a personal tutor for those people who are learning educational content.
Maybe in the future, all our children will be taught by AI, but at least for the short term, it looks like it's definitely a great assistant to have on hand whether you're doing any type of learning.
There were lots of statistics that showcased how GPT-4 performs better than any other model today, including it being able to pass the LSAT and the bar, being in the top quarter percentile, whereas previous versions of GPT-3 were in the lower quarter of that percentile.
GPT-4 for Writing
Other than the difference of being able to also take in visual inputs, it can also produce and handle over 25 000 words of text, which is much larger than previous models. It's also much more creative, being able to edit as well as modify and iterate over technical tasks and writing tasks way more accurately than previous models.
As an example, you could ask ChatGPT or GPT-3 to summarize Cinderella, and while it could do so, it wouldn't be able to do complex tasks such as being able to summarize it where every sentence of each word begins with the next letter of the alphabet, A to Z:
This is a much more complex task, and yet GPT-4 can do this quite easily.
GPT-4 in Daily Use Activities
GPT-4 also surpasses ChatGPT in advanced reasoning capabilities. This means that if you're trying to book an appointment between two people's calendars with different availabilities, GPT-4 can better reason and figure out a time that works for both of them.
GPT-4 Makes Fewer Errors
GPT-4 is also safer and less prone to making errors. OpenAI said that they spent six months making sure that GPT-4 is 82% less likely to create requests for disallowed content and 40% percent less likely to produce fake news or, at least, factually inaccurate responses.
How to Use GPT-4
If you're interested in using it right now, you can do so on ChatGPT Plus, which is the paid version of ChatGPT. And if you want to get access to the API, you'll need to join the API waitlist.
I went on to the ChatGPT website, where I got the new model available: GPT4.
It also showcases the difference between each model with the differences showing in reasoning speed and conciseness. Version 3.5 has average reasoning, and low conciseness, but quite high speed. The Legacy version is less used, and its speed is a bit lower, but GPT4 has very high reasoning and high conciseness, but the speed is a little bit lower, I'd say it's because it's still being pushed down, so it's currently limited to 100 messages every four hours.
I first asked it to showcase three different things that ChatGPT-4 can do that ChatGPT-3 couldn't. Technically, it is still trained on the same data all the way up to September 2021.
And what I found surprising is that it still thinks it's a version of GPT3, which maybe it was trained against, but it did have the correct answers, which means that it is better at comprehension and understanding. It is better at reasoning, and it's also better as a language model, supporting more languages more accurately as well.
Tricking GPT-4
We recently tricked a ChatGPT 3 into thinking 9 plus 10 is actually equal to 20 and not 19. And it fell for it. I tried to apply this same trick to GPT-4, but it didn't work, which means that technically speaking, it gave the correct answer consistently each time:
Getting the API
The API, it's not quite available yet. I've applied for the waitlist, and hopefully, I'll be accepted soon, and I'll showcase how you can use it for your own business as well as replace ChatGPT- 3.5 in the future.
Conclusion
With GPT-4, or being better almost across the board in all instances. It'll be interesting to see what happens to the old version of GPT 3.5 now that we have this available. I hope you guys enjoyed this article. If you did, don't forget to leave your thoughts below.
