SAN FRANCISCO
\nOpenAI on Monday released a higher performing and even more human-like version of the artificial intelligence technology that underpins its popular generative tool ChatGPT, making it free to all users. The update to OpenAI\u2019s flagship product landed a day before Google is expected to make its own announcements about Gemini, the search engine giant\u2019s own AI tool that competes with ChatGPT head on.
\n\u201cWe\u2019re very, very excited to bring GPT-4o to all of our free users out there,\u201d Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati said at the highly anticipated launch event in San Francisco. The new model GPT-4o \u2014 the \u201cO\u201d stands for omni \u2014 will be rolled out in OpenAI\u2019s products over the next few weeks, the company said, with paid customers having unlimited access to the tool.
\nThe company said the model could generate content or understand commands in voice, text, or images.\u201dThe new voice (and video) mode is the best computer interface I\u2019ve ever used. It feels like AI from the movies,\u201d said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in a blog post. Altman has previously pointed to the Scarlett Johansson character in the movie \u201cHer\u201d as an inspiration for where he would like AI interactions to go.
\n\u201cTalking to a computer has never felt really natural for me; now it does,\u201d he added.Murati and engineers from OpenAI demonstrated the new powers of GPT-4o at the virtual event, posing challenges to the beefed-up version of the ChatGPT chatbot. The demo mainly featured OpenAI staff members asking questions to the voiced ChatGPT, which responded with jokes and human-like banter.
\nThe bot served as an interpreter from English to Italian, interpreted facial expressions and walked one user through a difficult algebra problem. The company said that GPT-4o had the same powers as the previous version when it came to text, reasoning, and coding intelligence, and set new industry standards for multilingual conversations, audio, and vision.
\nIn one demonstration, ChatGPT successfully interpreted an employee\u2019s surroundings through a smartphone camera, speaking in a friendly, feminine voice, not unlike the AI bot in the film \u201cHer\u201d. \u201cHmmm from what I can see it looks like you\u2019re in some kind of recording or production set-up with lights, tripods… you might be gearing up to shoot a video or make an announcement?\u201d the ChatGPT bot said. \u2014 DNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SAN FRANCISCO OpenAI on Monday released a higher performing and even more human-like version of the artificial intelligence technology that underpins its popular generative tool ChatGPT, making it free to all users. The update to OpenAI\u2019s flagship product landed a day before Google is expected to make its own announcements about Gemini, the search engine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"yoast_head":"\n