GPT-4: all the rumors about the next version of ChatGPT

ChatGPT 4 is coming, and rumors suggest it might bring massive improvements to the already incredibly impressive language skills of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

To be clear, ChatGPT 4 is unlikely to be the name of OpenAI’s next product, but we took a bit of creative license and combined the ChatGPT name with the improved AI model that will drive it in the future, GPT-4. Let’s dig into GPT-4, how ChatGPT works now, and when OpenAI might release its next major upgrade.

What is GPT-4?

GPT-4 is a new language model being created by OpenAI that can generate text that is similar to human speech. It will advance the technology used by ChatGPT, which is based on GPT-3.5. GPT is the acronym for Generative Pre-trained Transformer, a deep learning technology that uses artificial neural networks to write like a human.

Billions of parameters are used to adjust the output of ChatGPT’s simulated neurons to achieve the desired result. The enormous amount of detail helps a computer come closer to the interconnectedness of a human brain, which also contains billions of neurons. OpenAI hasn’t confirmed any details about GPT-4 but does acknowledge that it is in progress. Rumors, however, are plentiful.

For example, as far back as August 2021, Wired reported that industry experts speculated that GPT-4 would feature 100 trillion parameters. Building an AI with more parameters doesn’t necessarily guarantee better performance; however, and could affect responsiveness.

Other rumors suggest better computer code generation and the ability to generate images as well as text from the same chat interface. An AI that can generate video is also expected.

Handling text, images, and video is known as a multimodal model. Machine learning expert Emil Wallner tweeted that GPT-4  might have this capability.

A hint to possible GPT-4 details came from a price sheet shared by Travis Fischer on Twitter. A new developer product called Foundry will include more than one model, adding two “DV” models that can handle more words at a time as input (the max context).

GPT-3.5 works with up to 2,048 words, but the two DV models, which might be GPT-4, have four times (8K resolution) and 16 times (32K) that capacity, allowing much more in-depth discussions to solve much bigger challenges.

Ultimately, this is all guesswork, and all that we know for certain is that GPT-4 is in progress and that it could bring a significant improvement to the results possible with ChatGPT.

Does GPT-4 have a release date?

GPT-4 is coming, and it will probably arrive this year. We don’t have a firm release date yet for when it will be released in ChatGPT, though. The New York Times suggested it could arrive as soon as the first quarter of this year. Since we’re in March, that would place the launch in a matter of weeks.

Microsoft confirmed that GPT-4 will be arriving the week of March 13, and that it would be a multimodal model that can generate text, images, and even video.

It isn’t clear right now how Microsoft and OpenAI will leverage GPT-4, though. It’s possible that the model is launching for research, so it might be a little while longer before we see it in ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing Chat.

Does Bing Chat use GPT-4?

Microsoft states that the new Bing, or Bing Chat, is more powerful than ChatGPT. Since OpenAI’s chat uses GPT-3.5, there is an implication that Bing Chat could be using GPT-4. This hasn’t been confirmed.

Clearly, Bing Chat has been upgraded with the ability to access current information via the internet, a huge improvement over ChatGPT, which can only draw from the training it received through 2021.

In addition to internet access, the AI model used for Bing Chat is much faster, something that is extremely important when taken out of the lab and added to a search engine.

It seems unlikely that will be equivalent to OpenAI’s GPT-4 model. There would be no need for caution if GPT-4 was already publicly available.

GPT-4: an evolution, not a revolution

While GPT-4 will almost certainly be impressive, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a StrictlyVC interview posted by Connie Loizos on YouTube that “people are begging to be disappointed, and they will be.”

Altman acknowledges the potential of AGI to wreak havoc on world economies and expressed that a quick rollout of several small changes is better than a shocking advancement that provides little opportunity for the world to adapt to the changes.

In short, GPT-4 will be an evolution, not a revolution. According to Altman, the next version of ChatGPT won’t be an AGI and it won’t have 100 trillion parameters. Those rumors are incorrect.

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