

“It’s just different,” he told TechCrunch. To get a better handle on GPT-4’s development cycle and its capabilities, as well as its limitations, TechCrunch spoke with Greg Brockman, one of the co-founders of OpenAI and its president, via a video call on Tuesday.Īsked to compare GPT-4 to GPT-3, Brockman had one word: Different. In one example on OpenAI’s own blog, GPT-4 describes Elvis Presley as the “son of an actor.” (Neither of his parents were actors.)

Like GPT-3, the model “hallucinates” facts and makes basic reasoning errors. It’s also multimodal in the sense that it can understand images, allowing it to caption and even explain in detail the contents of a photo.īut GPT-4 has serious shortcomings. GPT-4 improves upon its predecessor, GPT-3, in key ways, for example giving more factually true statements and allowing developers to prescribe its style and behavior more easily. OpenAI shipped GPT-4 yesterday, the much-anticipated text-generating AI model, and it’s a curious piece of work.
