GPT-4 supplied related capabilities, giving customers a number of methods to work together with OpenAI’s AI choices. But it surely siloed them in separate fashions, resulting in longer response occasions and presumably greater computing prices. GPT-4o has now merged these capabilities right into a single mannequin, which Murati known as an “omnimodel.” Meaning sooner responses and smoother transitions between duties, she mentioned.
The consequence, the corporate’s demonstration suggests, is a conversational assistant a lot within the vein of Siri or Alexa however able to fielding rather more complicated prompts.
“We’re the way forward for interplay between ourselves and the machines,” Murati mentioned of the demo. “We expect that GPT-4o is actually shifting that paradigm into the way forward for collaboration, the place this interplay turns into rather more pure.”
Barret Zoph and Mark Chen, each researchers at OpenAI, walked via a lot of purposes for the brand new mannequin. Most spectacular was its facility with reside dialog. You may interrupt the mannequin throughout its responses, and it might cease, hear, and regulate course.
OpenAI confirmed off the flexibility to alter the mannequin’s tone, too. Chen requested the mannequin to learn a bedtime story “about robots and love,” shortly leaping in to demand a extra dramatic voice. The mannequin obtained progressively extra theatrical till Murati demanded that it pivot shortly to a convincing robotic voice (which it excelled at). Whereas there have been predictably some brief pauses through the dialog whereas the mannequin reasoned via what to say subsequent, it stood out as a remarkably naturally paced AI dialog.