OpenAI presented on Monday a new version of ChatGPT, accessible to all for free, which can now hold oral and fluid conversations with its users, a further step towards ultra-sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) assistants, the current Holy Grail of Silicon Valley.
“Over the past two years, we have focused on improving the intelligence of “generative AI” models and we have achieved excellent results,” said Mira Murati, technology director of the Californian start-up, during a video presentation broadcast live on Monday. “But this is the first time we’ve taken a big step forward in ease of use. This is extremely important, this is the future of interaction between us and machines,” she added.
Bluffing
OpenAI has unveiled a new model, GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”), which can “reason” in real time via audio, vision and text.
These new capabilities will be gradually added to ChatGPT starting with text and image, first for paid subscribers, as well as free users, with limits on usage. The new version of “Voice Mode” should arrive in the coming weeks for subscribers.
With two of her colleagues, Mira Murati demonstrated how users will be able to interact with ChatGPT, during fluid conversations, reproducing in a stunning way discussions between humans.
” You make me blush “
In voice mode, ChatGPT is able to read users’ emotions on faces via a smartphone camera, guide them to do breathing exercises, tell them a story or even help them solve a math problem. And users can easily interrupt it.
“You look happy.” (…) Do you want to tell me what is the source of all this good humor? », asked the machine to an OpenAI engineer, who replied that he was showing the public how “useful and fabulous” it was.
“Oh stop, you’re making me blush,” she exclaimed back.
At the end of 2022, with the launch of ChatGPT – which generates content on a simple request in everyday language – OpenAI put generative AI on track, a revolution that took all the technological giants by surprise.
Since then, the entire Silicon Valley has embarked on a race for ever more efficient AI tools and assistants. Google is due to present its latest innovations on Tuesday, while Microsoft, OpenAI’s main investor, has planned an event for press and developers next week.
“Inspired” by “Her”
On Friday, Sam Altman, the boss of OpenAI, denied rumors about the announcements his company was preparing. “Not GPT-5, not a search engine,” he declared on his oral conversations with her. “It was incredibly prophetic,” he explained last September during a conference. “And it inspired us in more ways than one, (…) notably the idea that we all have a personalized agent who tries to help us. »
The thirty-year-old billionaire regularly promotes his vision of an AI which will one day be “general”, that is to say equipped with human cognitive capacities, capable of achieving scientific breakthroughs in the service of humanity.