On November 30th, we quietly released an initial version of ChatGPT online for research purposes. And it went pretty well, joked Sam Altman, the company’s boss.
We now have around 100 million weekly active users. A quote from Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI
These millions of people use ChatGPT to write messages, ask for a recipe or make up a story to tell their children – which the conversation robot can then read to them.
Members who have a premium subscription to the interface will soon be able to go further and create their own personalized chatbot without the need for any coding knowledge.
In fact, on Monday OpenAI launched so-called GPTs, agents that can, for example, help you learn the rules of a board game or teach your children math.
Among the examples that the company puts online we find “The Laundry Friend”, where you can ask about tasks, washing machine settings and laundry sorting. There is also the negotiator who will help you defend your interests and achieve better results.
These conversational robots are based on OpenAI language models (the basic technology of generative artificial intelligence) and on the instructions and documents provided by the creator of the conversational robot – for example game rules.
These initiatives are similar to those recently announced by Meta, notes Insider Intelligence analyst Yory Wurmser, referring to generative AIs with personalities that were introduced by the social media giant this fall.
[Ces nouveautés] aim to keep OpenAI one step ahead of companies like Google and Amazon. A quote from Insider Intelligence analyst Yory Wurmser
The world’s cloud leaders, Amazon, Microsoft and Google, have done this [d’interface de programmation d’application] (API) for several major language models and will undoubtedly follow with similar tools, he added.
These personalized agents promise to help people in their personal and professional lives, experts say.
As intelligence [artificielle] will be integrated everywhere, we will have all superpowers at our fingertips. A quote from Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI
A new turbo model
In addition to GPT, OpenAI’s announcements were primarily aimed at the more than 2 million developers who use its technologies to build generative AI applications.
Sam Altman introduced GPT-4 Turbo, a new model that can incorporate more context into queries, is trained on newer data, and costs less. The application programming interface (API) gains multimedia capabilities (computer vision, speech, etc.).
Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI.
Photo: (Patrick Semansky/The Associated Press)
And OpenAI now plans to pay legal costs if it is sued for intellectual property infringement.
In 2023, the unprecedented success of ChatGPT and concerns about generative artificial intelligence (AI) have taken OpenAI’s young leader from parliamentary hearings to interviews with heads of state.
On Monday, he reiterated his confidence in artificial intelligence’s ability to empower everyone, on a scale we’ve never seen before.
“We will be able to do more, create more and have more.” A quote from Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI
Tech giants are also racing to harness this technology with new tools for their search engines, platforms and productivity software.
Microsoft, the maker of Windows, has returned to the forefront of the technology scene thanks to its major investments in OpenAI. “We love you,” Satya Nadella, the head of Microsoft, said on Monday.
“I’m excited about the idea of us building artificial general intelligence together,” replied Sam Altman, recalling OpenAI’s longer-term project: creating an artificial intelligence AI with cognitive abilities superior to humans.