It was less than four months ago that OpenAI announced ChatGPT and sent the world into meltdown with the artificial intelligence chatbot’s wide-ranging set of abilities, but GPT-4 is already here and people are even more impressed with what it can offer. Unfortunately, you’ll need to open your wallet to experience its full potential.
The main differences between GPT-4 and the ChatGPT that was recently used to write an episode of South Park include that it’s more creative, now accepts images as prompts and is able to handle 25,000 words of text (eight times more than the previous ChatGPT) for more specific responses with deeper context. That’s a significant step up from the already impressive capabilities that ChatGPT offered, with a couple of demonstrations showing exactly what it’s capable of including the President and Co-Founder of OpenAI, Greg Brockman, creating a fully functional website with just a hand-drawn sketch as the original prompt (skip to 16:19 on the video below to watch).
Other users have found it capable of coding simple computer games in a matter of minutes, with someone prompting GPT-4 to create a rudimentary game of Snake despite not having any previous knowledge of JavaScript. On its site, OpenAI shows how GPT-4 can receive an input image of a bench with flour, milk, eggs and butter on it and then offer more than half a dozen different recipe ideas of what you can cook using those ingredients. Mind opening stuff.
Can GPT-4 code an entire game for you? Yes, yes it can.
— Ammaar Reshi (@ammaar) March 14, 2023
Here’s how I recreated a Snake game that runs in your browser using Chat GPT-4 and @Replit, with ZERO knowledge of Javascript all in less than 20 mins ? pic.twitter.com/jzQzSRIkfz
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As it turns out, you might have already been interacting with GPT-4, with Microsoft confirming that BingChat (which was co-developed with OpenAI) is running on GPT-4 while a number of other businesses are already using the tool in their workflows. Payment platform Stripe has been using GPT-4 to read business websites for its customer support staff, the investment bank Morgan Stanley is using a GPT-4 powered tool to retrieve company financial documents and Duolingo is using it as a language learning tool.
If you’re keen to get in on the action you’ll need the same OpenAI account you set up to play around with ChatGPT, but you’ll need to upgrade to ChatGPT Plus for US$20 (AU$30) per month for access to GPT-4. You’ll also currently have a limit of 100 messages every four hours.
