OpenAI Announced GPT-4 Turbo, GPTs, and Assistants API, Among Other Improvements [Video]

OpenAI shared yesterday several new additions and improvements, including GPT-4 Turbo, an improved version of its flagship model, during its first DevDay conference in San Francisco. [OpenAI's CEO in the picture above]. The company also introduced GPTs, which allow developers to create custom versions of ChatGPT that combine instructions, extra knowledge, and any combination of skills. "Anyone can easily build their own GPT — no coding is required. Creating one is as easy as starting a conversation, giving it instructions and extra knowledge, and picking what it can do, like searching the web, making images, or analyzing data," explained OpenAI. Example GPTs are available today for ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise users, including Canva and Zapier AI Actions. More innovations announced at DevDay included: New GPT-4 Turbo with a 128k context window, equivalent to more than 300 pages in text in a single prompt.GPT-4 Turbo has knowledge of world events up to April 2023.OpenAI is offering it at a 3x cheaper price for input tokens and a 2x cheaper price for output tokens compared to GPT-4.It will be a stable, production-ready model in the coming weeks. New Assistants API, which is intended to make it easier for developers to build their own assistive AI apps. New multimodal capabilities in the platform, including vision and image creation (DALL·E 3). Developers can now generate human-quality speech from text via the text-to-speech API. Release of Whisper large-v3, the next version of OpenAI's open-source automatic speech recognition model (ASR) Open-sourcing the Consistency Decoder, a drop-in replacement for the Stable Diffusion VAE decoder. BOOM OpenAI changes the world of app economy. Meet GPTs user developed agents that ANYONE can make and sell in the GPTs Store. pic.twitter.com/yGRDfR6WT6 — Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) November 6, 2023 OpenAI announces Assistant API, which lets developers build "assistants" in their apps that can call OpenAI generative AI models and tools to perform tasks (@kyle_l_wiggers / TechCrunch)https://t.co/z1OKEfofD4 📫 Subscribe: https://t.co/OyWeKSRpIMhttps://t.co/xC4vB8BidL — Techmeme (@Techmeme) November 6, 2023 OpenAI introduces a no-code way for ChatGPT Plus subscribers to create custom AI agents for a wide range of tasks and then share them via the GPT Store (@alexeheath / The Verge)https://t.co/A58zaiecL9 📫 Subscribe: https://t.co/OyWeKSRpIMhttps://t.co/Fwntqmfz6z — Techmeme (@Techmeme) November 6, 2023 A new version of ChatGPT will allow you to create your own “bot” allowing you to: Name it. Share it. Produce a simple welcome message. Samples of useful prompts. Upload related reference files. Define plugins and actions like web browsing, DALL-E, code interpreter. pic.twitter.com/3m33eLVJU4 — Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) November 5, 2023 Official Press Release to the Media from OpenAI: A few key stats we announced on stage as it’s been a big year for OpenAI: We have more than 2 million developers building on our API for a wide range of use cases. Over 92% of Fortune 500 are building on our products. And we have about 100M weekly active users on ChatGPT. Introducing GPTs: We’re introducing GPTs – custom versions of ChatGPT. Anyone can easily build GPTs to help with specific tasks, at work, or at home. We think GPTs take a first step towards an agent-like future. For third-party developers, we’re showing them how to build these agent-like experiences into their own apps as well. Example GPTs are available today for ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise users to try out including Canva and Zapier AI Actions. New models and developer products announced at DevDay, including: ChatGPT gets a new UI. GPT-4 Turbo: a new model that includes longer context length, better world knowledge because we’re updating the cutoff to April 2023, and other improvements. New Assistants API makes it easier for developers to build their own GPT-like experiences into their own apps and services. New modalities to the API, including vision, DALL·E 3, and text-to-speech with six preset voices to choose from. Dropping the price of all of our models across the board so it’s easier for developers to build and scale on our platform. See details in our blog posts, GPTs, and new models/products, for more info. Press images are here, and we’ll add more throughout the day.

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A WordPress free plugin, AI Engine, allows for the creation of ChatGPT-like chatbots on websites by adding a shortcode. An English developer living in Japan, Jordy Meow, launched this tool through its website. Users would need to host a WordPress-based website and an account with OpenAI. The Chatbot builder allows the user to provide the AI assistant with a name and a starting message. It also allows fine-tuning the robot as the plugin comes with a Dataset Builder used to generate a large number of questions and answers based on the website content. Data is gathered in a Google Sheet with two columns, with a minimum of 500 rows. (According to the OpenAI documentation, numbers of 3,000 and 5,000 rows are recommended. But it ultimately depends on what you’re trying to achieve.) Once you have your dataset, you can import it into AI Engine using the “Import File” button. You can export a CSV file from Google Sheets and use it here, but it also supports JSON and JSONL formats if you prefer. Alternatively, you can type the data manually. The developer has added a paid Pro version, starting at $49 per site. This functionality allows the chat to read the WordPress page that's hosted. This way, customers can ask questions about the webpage. This plugin is free, although getting access to OpenAI's server has a cost for heavily trafficked sites. Another approach is offered by Chatbase.co. This start-up offers an API to create chatbots trained on your data. https://t.co/aVdLRGEeK0 now has an API to create chatbots and chat with them! You can give the API a URL or text and Chatbase will create a chatbot for you based on that content. You can then use the API to chat with it!https://t.co/8r3pIOjALU@LangChainAI @pinecone @OpenAI — Yasser (@yasser_elsaid_) March 28, 2023 In terms of productivity, Chatbot UI offers an open-source clone of OpenAI's ChatGPT user interface. Developers can plug in their API key to use this UI with their API. Prompts just got more powerful. Chatbot UI now has prompt templates complete with support for prompt variables. Come save all of your custom prompts for easy reuse. GitHub: https://t.co/hQuE8ezCD5 pic.twitter.com/tT2HTp3ojZ — Mckay Wrigley (@mckaywrigley) March 27, 2023 Chatshape.com allows the implementation of an AI customer support agent from the user's website content and adds it as a chat bubble. OFFICIAL LAUNCH ALERT 🚀 🚀 Finally launching https://t.co/rF4drmoCGi on Product Hunt! Create an AI customer support agent from your website content and add it to your site as a chat bubble! LIVE LINK: https://t.co/Uz5Vd0bN1d pic.twitter.com/MwGSR22Nxe — James Pog (@jamescodez) May 1, 2023 Finally, the website espanol.love uses GPT-4 to accurately translate anything into Spanish with an accent. google translate but with a clone of my voice 💌 this website uses gpt-4 to accurately translate anything into spanish, and say it back like you would with an accent! check out the demo & github 👇 pic.twitter.com/2fpCf7GyCV — Aleem Rehmtulla (@aleemrehmtulla) May 1, 2023 .

Google Introduced Its Newest LLM 'PaLM 2'. It Includes Bard, ChatGPT's Strongest Competitor Yet [Video]

Google went all-in on AI during its I/O 2023 developer annual conference on Wednesday. The search giant publicly unveiled its newest large language model (LLM), PaLM 2, which, according to the company, is better at reasoning, writing, math, and logic, and performs better than OpenAI's GPT-4 in coding and debugging. The Mountain View, California-based company also introduced a new multimodal LLM called Gemini, which is currently under training. PaLM 2 comes in different sizes, which are weirdly named after animal constellations: Gecko, Otter, Bison, and Unicorn. Google’s new code completion and code generation tool, named Codey is the company’s answer to GitHub’s Copilot. Codey is specifically trained to handle coding-related prompts and is also trained to handle queries related to Google Cloud in general. Google also made its chatbot Bard, the equivalent of ChatGPT, officially available for everyone, removing any waitlist. Built on PaLM2, Bard allows export to Google Docs, Sheets, Replit, and Gmail, among others. Bard's users will be able to generate images via Adobe Firefly and then modify them using Express. In its search business, Google introduced the AI snapshot feature, which takes content from top links and allows for follow-up questions. Sponsored ads will appear above while traditional links will be placed below. Google’s productivity suite Workspace was improved with an AI sidekick called Duet, designed to provide better prompts. It has automatic prompt suggestions and can do a ton of things, such as converting text to tables in Sheets, finding information in Gmail threads, and creating images in Slides. “The Sidekick panel will live in a side panel in Google Docs and is constantly engaged in reading and processing your entire document as you write, providing contextual suggestions that refer specifically to what you’ve written,” said Google. Another feature of Google Workplace, particularly in Gmail and Docs, is the 'help me write' feature, which allows users to write anything at different lengths. The new AI features for Slides and Meet include the ability to type in what kind of visualization the user is looking for, and the AI creates that image. Specifically for Google Meet, that means custom backgrounds. Google introduced the Magic Editor in Google Photos. Google also announced new AI models heading to Vertex AI, its fully managed AI enterprise service, including a text-to-image model called Imagen. Another interesting project introduced by the search giant is Project Tailwind, an AI-powered notebook tool that takes a user's free-form notes and automatically organizes and summarizes them. Essentially, users pick files from Google Drive, then Project Tailwind creates a private AI model with expertise in that information, along with a personalized interface designed to help sift through the notes and docs. The tool is available through Labs, Google’s refreshed hub for experimental products. Project Tailwind takes your notes and makes it into a AI study tool, an AI first notebook #GoogleIO This is amazing! pic.twitter.com/dyhVImbtkN — Analie✨ (@AnalieNYC) May 10, 2023 Google's offering a platform to custom fine tune their models on your own dataset. The platforms called Vertex AI. Many startups are under risk. Current Partners: @Replit @Uber @DeutscheBank Here are some images: 1. Choose a foundation model from Text, Image & more 🧵 pic.twitter.com/eNZGgvdj1E — Farhan H (@FarhanSoftware) May 10, 2023 Google Workspace has 3 billion users. Gen AI will be the biggest change to Workspace in years. Here are the best gen AI features that Google announced today to improve productivity: pic.twitter.com/8E7ZEXALbM — Peter Yang (@petergyang) May 11, 2023 Googles new LLM (bison) is approx 7.5x cheaper than gpt4 Basic napkin math: 1 token ~ 4 characters Gpt4: $0.03/1000 tokens Bison: $0.004/1000 tokens Chat bison is 15x cheaper (0.0005/1k) You can also batch requests! Smaller models are the way to go pic.twitter.com/KhjgxCVchu — Sully (@SullyOmarr) May 11, 2023 Google just released ChatGPT's strongest competitor yet – Bard It's free to use and comes with 10X more features. Here are some of the craziest things only Bard can do ( ChatGPT cannot) 🧵 — Rez Karim (@rezkhere) May 11, 2023 Google Vertex vs OpenAI GPT3.5! 🚀 At the recent #GoogleIO, Google launched Vertex AI models for language generation, stepping into the ring with OpenAI’s API. I decided to pit OpenAI's GPT3.5 and Vertex AI's text-bison@001 against each other in a knowledge retrieval task pic.twitter.com/VWdLbuKlDK — Dhiraj Nambiar (@dhirajnambiar) May 12, 2023

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Meta/Facebook Open-Sources 'ImageBind', A Multimodal, Holistic Learning Model On Generative AI

Meta/Facebook announced a new open-source multisensory model that links together six types of data (text, audio, visual data, thermal infrared images, and movement readings), pointing to a future of generative AI that creates immersive experiences by cross-referencing this info. This model is a research model, a paper, with no immediate consumer or practical applications, and speaks in favor of Meta/Facebook since OpenAI and Google are developing these models secretively, according to experts. For example, AI image generators like DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney all rely on systems that link together text and images during the training stage, as they follow users' text inputs to generate pictures. Many AI tools generate video or audio in the same way. Meta's underlying model, named ImageBind, is the first one to combine six types of data into a single embedding space. Recently, Meta open-sourced LLaMA, the language model that started an alternative movement to OpenAI and Google. With ImageBind, it's continuing with this strategy by opening the floodgates for researchers to try to develop new, holistic AI systems. • "When humans absorb information from the world, we innately use multiple senses, such as seeing a busy street and hearing the sounds of car engines. Today, we’re introducing an approach that brings machines one step closer to humans’ ability to learn simultaneously, holistically, and directly from many different forms of information — without the need for explicit supervision (the process of organizing and labeling raw data)," said Meta in a blog-post. • "For instance, while Make-A-Scene can generate images by using text prompts, ImageBind could upgrade it to generate images using audio sounds, such as laughter or rain." • "Imagine that someone could take a video recording of an ocean sunset and instantly add the perfect audio clip to enhance it, or when a model like Make-A-Video produces a video of a carnival, ImageBind can suggest background noise to accompany it, creating an immersive experience." • "There’s still a lot to uncover about multimodal learning. We hope the research community will explore ImageBind and our accompanying published paper to find new ways to evaluate vision models and lead to novel applications."

The "Godfather of AI" Statements About the Danger of the Technology Cause Widespread Concern

Discussing the impacts of artificial intelligence, Steve Wozniak, Apple's co-founder said on CNN that he was not concerned. [See video below] "I am confident AI will be used by bad actors, and yes it will cause real damage," Microsoft Corp. Chief Economist Michael Schwarz said during a World Economic Forum panel in Geneva on Wednesday. "It can do a lot damage in the hands of spammers with elections and so on," he added. His statements came one day after the "Godfather of AI", Dr. Geoffrey Hinton [in the picture], quit Google after warning of the dangers of AI ahead, as The New York Times reported. Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, an artificial intelligence pioneer, announced he was regretting his life's work and was leaving Google, where he has worked for more than a decade so that he freely shares his concern that artificial intelligence could cause the world serious harm. On Monday he joined a growing number of critics who say those companies are racing toward danger with their aggressive campaign to create products based on generative artificial intelligence, the technology that powers popular chatbots like ChatGPT. "I console myself with the normal excuse: If I hadn’t done it, somebody else would have," Dr. Hinton said to The New York Times. "Dr. Hinton’s journey from A.I. groundbreaker to doomsayer marks a remarkable moment for the technology industry at perhaps its most important inflection point in decades," wrote the paper. Many industry insiders say Generative A.I. can already be a tool for misinformation, soon, it could be a risk to jobs, and somewhere down the line, it could be a risk to humanity. "It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things," Dr. Hinton said. Google spent $44 million to acquire a company started by Dr. Hinton and his two students. And their system led to the creation of increasingly powerful technologies, including new chatbots like ChatGPT and Google Bard. In 2018, Dr. Hinton and two other longtime collaborators received the Turing Award, often called “the Nobel Prize of computing,” for their work on neural networks. Dr. Hinton believes that the race between Google and Microsoft and others will escalate into a global race that will not stop without some sort of global regulation. "The best hope is for the world’s leading scientists to collaborate on ways of controlling the technology."   40 seconds to understand why the human species might go extinct and why if we race towards AGI, everyone will lose, by @geoffreyhinton pic.twitter.com/eoQ92WHj3B — Siméon (@Simeon_Cps) May 3, 2023

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