The Latest GPT Updates and Musk's New AI

GPT news from the first keynote

On Monday, November 6, 2023 in San Francisco, OpenAI held its very first keynote, and they went all out for the occasion.

GPT Builder

The most incredible announcement in my view is undoubtedly the feature that lets you create and configure your own conversational agents and then share them. If you watch this video, you'll see just how easy it is.

In practice, say I want to build a conversational agent specialized in cooking: I give it my requirements, it generates an avatar matching the agent's spirit using Dall-E, I can provide my own recipes, and in less than 3 minutes, I have a ChatGPT agent specialized in cooking that knows my recipes. I can even share this agent via a link or with specific people.

The possibilities are enormous: e-commerce, CRM, personal assistant on any topic you care about...

GPT Store

Naturally, since you'll be able to build specific agents, you'll also be able to share them on a store and acquire others as well. Makes sense!

Launch planned for sometime in November according to OpenAI.

GPT-4 and other announcements

According to OpenAI, more than 100 million users per week use their technologies. With that kind of reach, updates are more than impactful, and this MASSIVE update will roll out progressively.

The ChatGPT interface will be updated with all the new features for a better experience and improved design. Notably, with the GPT-4 updates, the context window will be larger and will integrate better knowledge. GPT-4 will accept images as input and will be capable of generating human-quality speech.

With an expanded context capacity of 128K instead of 36K, it is now possible with GPT-4 to include the equivalent of over 300 pages of text in a single request. This improvement opens the door to more complex interactions and a deeper understanding of user intent.

ChatGPT's data will be updated through April 2023 (nice).

Last piece of news: the GPT-4 Turbo API is 3 times cheaper than GPT-4!

In short, everything is better for less!

The other big news: Musk's AI

We tried to create a game where dialogues would be generated by ChatGPT, and it has to be said that the AI is far too polished to produce a compelling scenario. It left us wanting more.

Musk's AI, going by the charming name of GROK, promises to be more edgy. It must be said that Musk has a taste for provocation: releasing his product on the day of OpenAI's keynote is classic Musk.

The meaning behind the name

The term "Grok" comes from the science fiction novel "Stranger in a Strange Land" (1961) by Robert A. Heinlein. In the book, "grok" is a Martian word meaning to understand something so deeply that it becomes a part of you, often on an intuitive or empathetic level. It's a comprehension that transcends mere intellectual knowledge to encompass total, integrated understanding.

By naming his AI "Grok," Musk seems to suggest that this technology aims to achieve a level of understanding and information integration similar to what the term implies. The goal would be for Grok to "drink" or "absorb" a massive amount of information from the Internet, data from the X platform, and its interactions with programmers and the general public, to achieve an intuitive understanding of humanity.

This ambition reflects an aspiration to create an AI that can not only process and understand data at a surface level but also develop a form of intuition or empathy, traits generally associated with human consciousness.

Naturally, since humanity is not always polished, the AI will resemble the mirror we hold up to it.

Musk amused himself by asking the AI "how to produce cocaine?" and it responded with humor about the precautions to take before ultimately saying it's illegal.

Cheaper and tied to X (formerly Twitter)

Grok claims to be more performant than ChatGPT according to several academic benchmarks. With an access cost of $16 per month via X Premium Plus, it targets a niche but tech-savvy audience, and initially, only in the United States on the X platform (formerly Twitter).

According to its creators, Grok has several strengths: its technical reliability and access to live information since its source is directly X.

xAI was founded in July 2023 by recruiting specialists (including people from OpenAI) to respond to "WokeGPT," as Musk jokingly calls ChatGPT.

We'll see what becomes of it. The Beta version is coming soon!