Meet The New Kid on the Block: ChatGPT 4o

A few months ago, we made a video on Hume, the voice AI that interacts with you, mirroring your emotions. Hume is fantastic; it's quick, witty, and empathetic enough, including an intriguing depth of "emotion" that keeps you engaged in conversation for a while. However, Hume can have a bit of a cut-off feel, like that super self-centered co-worker who can't wait their turn to talk while you're still finishing a sentence. A kind, funny, super smart, co-worker that's a bit awkward - that's all.

Enter ChatGPT4o, 4o (as in the letter "o"),?early Monday, May 13th, 2024. Yep, this morning.

The good folks at OpenAI, not content with messing with our minds with the "I am a good gpt 2 chatbot" mystery for weeks, along with their?"GPT4 is crap" decide to open Pandora's box this morning: Chat GPT4o.

This is a significant leap forward from its predecessor, ChatGPT 4. This new model is not just an upgrade; it's a transformation that redefines the boundaries of human-computer interaction—and it's free.

Distinguishing Chat GPT4o from ChatGPT 4

Chat GPT4o stands out because it owns the 'omni'??label. It integrates text, voice, and vision and offers a multimodal experience. This integration allows for more natural and intuitive interactions closer to human conversations.

Comparing it to HUME, who did a phenomenal job laying the groundwork for these guys,?Chat GPT4o not only understands images and text but also incorporates real-time voice interaction. So we're talking real conversations—or as close to real conversations as you can get—where you can interrupt and change the course of the conversation mid-sentence, just like you would with another human being.

The benefits for?folks like you and me are key:

It enhances accessibility, allowing users to interact with the AI in the mode that's most convenient for them, whether text, voice, or visual. Check the demo when the developers do the math!

Secondly, it improves the AI's understanding of context, a major gap before, as it can now pick up on nuances in tone or visual details that text alone could not convey.

Chat GPT4o is revolutionary in its ability to seamlessly blend different forms of communication, breaking down the barriers between humans and machines. Its rapid response time, averaging around 320 milliseconds, rivals human reaction times in conversations, making interactions incredibly fluid and natural.

On OpenAI's page, there's significant text dedicated to safety. My favorite topic. I'm impressed, I'll leave it at this:

GPT-4o has also undergone extensive external red teaming with 70+?external experts?in domains such as social psychology, bias and fairness, and misinformation to identify risks that are introduced or amplified by the newly added modalities. We used these learnings to build out our safety interventions in order to improve the safety of interacting with GPT-4o. We will continue to mitigate new risks as they are discovered.

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We're working on a follow up article showing what it looks like along with ethics implications. New modalities, new opportunities, new risks. Be safe, be wise, and stay updated. The future is being written in front of our eyes, and you and I are front and center authors. Let's pen our best work!

For more information, check their page: https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/