GPT-4 Will Launch This Week, Bring More Sophisticated AI Features

JAKARTA - The long-awaited successor to OpenAI's generative model, GPT-4 will be launched this week with multimodal support. The current version only supports text input or one interaction mode.

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Microsoft Germany, Andreas Braun said the new system will launch next week when he spoke at the AI ​​in Focus, Digital Kickoff event last week.

Braun stated that GPT-4 will offer completely different possibilities than the current GPT-3.5 model, including video.

"We will introduce GPT-4 next week, where we have a multimodal model that will offer very different possibilities – for example, video," said Braun.

Multimodal ChatGPT is a massive upgrade to Artificial Intelligence (AI) that already provides human-like responses to a question.

Currently, ChatGPT only supports text input or one interaction mode. However, GPT-4 will support text, audio, video, and images as input.

This means that if GPT-4 goes beyond text it means AI can view videos on YouTube or listen to audio recordings and then provide answers to questions. That's what makes it multimodal, a feature that can significantly enhance AI capabilities.

Braun called the underlying technology, AI understanding natural language, a game changer. He added, ChaGPT will work in all languages, including multi-language support.

The user may want to ask something in Indonesian and then get an answer in Italian.

Microsoft offers an example of how multimodal ChatGPT can help businesses. AI can automatically summarize support calls with text after listening to the recording.

The capability will save 500 man-hours a day for Microsoft's large customer in the Netherlands, which receives 30,000 calls a day and needs to be condensed. Setting up ChatGPT for such a task will only take a few hours.

However, Microsoft warns that ChatGPT will not always be reliable, even after the GPT-4 upgrade. Microsoft is working on trust metrics to improve chatbot reliability, as quoted from BGR, Tuesday, March 14.

It's unclear whether GPT-4 will be a default update for ChatGPT or exclusive to Microsoft's Bing search engine which already supports ChatGPT.

However, Microsoft Germany confirmed GPT-4 is claimed to be coming this week on March 16 with multimodal support.

The tech giant has also signed a contract for exclusive access to the OpenAI model, and continues to incorporate it into its own products. It has not yet been revealed what model powers its latest Bing AI web search engine, many people have speculated it could be GPT-4.