OpenAI released the latest version of its chatbot last month. GPT-4 may seem to be spinning off more sequels than Harry Potter, but the recent developments are a need-to-know for machine learning wizards and muggles alike.
Plug-ins were the big news. And no, we’re not talking about Elon Musk’s hairline. Plug-ins are pieces of software that can combine the functionality of different products by simply plugging them together. Slack, OpenTable, Shopify, Expedia, Zapier, Wolfram and Instacart are among the companies offering plug-ins this month. GPT-4 is now a developer platform.
GPT-4 is a leap in technology, not an evolution. It extends to video, audio and imagery. It was trained on 170 trillion parameters, against GPT-3’s 170 billion. It is orders of magnitude more powerful and
