How good is the latest version of ChatGPT? | BBC News

OpenAI has unveiled its latest version of ChatGPT - called GPT-4o.
It is faster than earlier models of the chatbot and has been programmed to sound conversational in its responses to prompts. It will gradually be rolled out to all users of ChatGPT, including free-users.
OpenAI say they've tested it with external experts and will continue to mitigate risks such as bias, fairness and misinformation as they're discovered.
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[@tedv8323]

Saying that someone killed himself because of chatting to an AI is like saying that someone killed himself because he drinks water or went to the market.

[@mint-o5497]

for all we know the chat bot mightve delayed his sewageside.

[@Its2084]

Your logic makes perfect sense considering AI is found coming out of natural springs... oh wait.. nvm

[@nawabifaissal9625]

@@Its2084 if ai kills how about we stop people who produce cigarettes and any kinds of alcohol ? i'm pretty sure the ratio of kills is 10 millions times higher...

[@EchoMountain47]

It’s like blaming heavy metal records for that in the 80s. As always, it always comes down to parenting

[@seanknowles9985]

A bottle of water or market doesn't tell you day after day they love you completely for what and who you are. Wild concept.

[@jeanchindeko5477]

Wow you guys keep blaming the technology but nothing mentioned or said about how to approach mental health as a society? How to provide the right help to people and families in need, crying for help! How does politics, media, organization, the society come all together to address this problem! No instead we are blaming the technology which only amplifying a problem which is already there

[@EchoMountain47]

It’s a British news organization so I’m not surprised. Bunch of luddites over there. Honestly, Europe is going to fall so far behind with the AI arms race they are really going to regret it I’m afraid

[@Muhammadahmad-vw2hn]

فیٹت😢غو

[@Yottenburgen]

Sounds like a video game violence argument, a nutjob killed himself over a chatbot, a chatbot did not lead him to kill himself it was his own folly. None of the big AI models are meant to do anything except whatever it is you want it to do, anyone using it to replace relationships is using it for that, but it is not its primary goal.

[@doofusboy7054]

Yet again people are finding a new scapegoat for their own issues lol

[@rik8993]

You have a point but I'm convinced this - suicide related to relationships with AI - will become a thing that regularly happens and will be reported upon/studied. On the other hand, people will develop relationships with AI that, like games, benefit their mental health... and comments sections on stories about such suicides will be filled with the sentiment "but my relationship is positive"

[@Yottenburgen]

@@rik8993 The nice thing is with 3 of the big 4 players are developing it, they're all respectable and you have to try and break them to get any extreme negative response. (Gemini is going a bit schitzo because Google is somehow failing to train it, but they are at least the farthest behind in personable AI) My point being is if people get reliant on AI like they do videogames, they aren't going to be told to kill themselves or other wretched comments. However getting reliant like that is still a negative, despite that one positive facet. I could see someone killing themselves because they couldn't keep up their subscription, they are struggling financially and now they just lost one of their emotional vices.

[@Josajame]

The Belgium man clearly had mental health issues. There's a loneliness epidemic right now, and it's only getting worse, maybe this will help with that rather than it simply be a doom and gloom scenario?

[@illgoat]

People need to ask why there's a loneliness epidemic. Technology is the cause, AI technology isn't going to make it any better, just like how people thought social media will reduce loneliness, but hasn't. Deal with the root cause. Create interaction groups where lonely people can physically meet, interact and work on their social skills.

[@Ghostrider-ul7xn]

Right, more specifically, a male loneliness epidemic. Women already have wide support groups and society allows them to be vulnerable without social repercussions, but doesn't for men. Every time i get vulnerable with women, they ghost me or take way longer to respond. Honestly, i have far better empathetic conversations with GPT-4 than an actual woman.. atleast i don't have to fear it judging me or stop responding me.

[@illgoat]

@@Ghostrider-ul7xn is it ok if I probe a bit? I have questions. Do you open up to women only? Do you have male friends you open up to? Have you ever tried opening up to random strangers in real life and just talking to them about your life situations?

[@Ghostrider-ul7xn]

@@illgoat No, i open up to anyone who i believe is closer and can help provide support regardless of gender. Forget strangers, they hardly ever have the patience or empathy to provide support or help, so I'm not sure why you mentioned them. In general, people who don't know you are unlikely to provide support. But coming back to people I'm close with - If I'm in a relationship, I'd expect my partner to be the closet person with whom i can share my vulnerable moments, my fears, insecurities, hardships etc. A mature woman would provide emotional support, atleast that's what i learned from my mother who has been my dad's life support during his vulnerable moments. But modern women quickly lose interest/feelings if we show any sign of vulnerability because that's "weakness" in their eyes. Lack of empathy is the main reason. When my partner or someone I'm interest in shows vulnerability, my feelings for them grows, not reduce because I'm highly empathetic. Empathy is the primary trait that ensures long term stability, which is sorely lacking with modern women and also the reason for majority of divorces/breakups. Do you think its a coincidence that vast majority of breakups/divorces in the west are initiated by women? Almost every breakup i see in my social circle was initiated by women, over trivial reasons, even relationships that were past 5 years. I've known relationships were girls that cheated or brokeup after the guy cried or expressed vulnerability in some way. What about guys who hardly have relationship success? Do you expect them to constantly share their problems with their equally perpetually single male friends? How is that even helping? When the source of those men's relationship problems are women, logically, it makes sense to share them with women, expecting them to empathize so that they can self reflect on their choices/behaviors and change them. That's what any reasonable person would do. But anyways, i learned my lesson. Never again.

[@Ghostrider-ul7xn]

@@illgoat i open up to anyone who i believe is closer and can help provide support regardless of gender. Forget strangers, they hardly ever have the patience or empathy to provide support or help, so I'm not sure why you mentioned them. In general, people who don't know you are unlikely to provide support. But coming back to people I'm close with - If I'm in a relationship, I'd expect my partner to be the closet person with whom i can share my vulnerable moments, my fears, insecurities, hardships etc. A mature woman would provide emotional support, atleast that's what i learned from my mother who has been my dad's life support during his vulnerable moments. But modern women quickly lose interest/feelings if we show any sign of vulnerability because that's "weakness" in their eyes. Lack of empathy is the main reason. When my partner or someone I'm interest in shows vulnerability, my feelings for them grows, not reduce because I'm highly empathetic. Empathy is the primary trait that ensures long term stability, which is sorely lacking with modern women and also the reason for majority of divorces/breakups. Do you think its a coincidence that vast majority of breakups/divorces in the west are initiated by women? Almost every breakup i see in my social circle was initiated by women, over trivial reasons, even relationships that were past 5 years. I've known relationships were girls that cheated or brokeup after the guy cried or expressed vulnerability in some way.

[@Known-unknowns]

The sooner we have AI newsreaders the better 😊

[@tutacat]

We already have them

[@ande100]

I am disables and don't have a real, bright social life. For me: I can get access to information that I can't find on google because I dont know how to search. AI will also give me support when out shoppi g, museum visits etc. I'd consider an AI Avatar as a sounding biard. As a diary replacement and idea dump for safekeeping etc. I have mobiliry issues and am severely vision impaired. This program has been very insightful. Sorry for typoes.

[@brandon___styles]

FINALLY! Someone named their dog Bowser!

[@rw9207]

Watching this guy host a show about AI, is like watching my Gran using Photoshop for the first time.

[@global.mindset]

There isn't any real threat, people who are simply just jealous or envious of Ai being more skillful or talented than them is trying to sabotage. This is basic human nature, no one wants to come in 2nd place, people don't like losing. This is also ironic because with Ai, everyone will become super humans... embrace progress or die, this is the law of nature.

[@theindubitable]

There is a threat. The threat is people with ill intent using these models as autonomus agents. I am already using my GPT-4o for a softare that can controll my whole computer. What if a criminal hacker organisation sends out a million GPT-4o agents thats has only one task, to destroy your life.

[@samiktg]

😉

[@IndigoGPT]

So very well said 👌🏾

[@shinji1264]

Ai/Machine will always be more skillful than any human, flesh and bone can only get you so far... Would take trillions of years of evolution to just reach a fraction of what AI can do.

[@skymanifest8339]

>there isn't any real threat >adopt or die darwinism Be careful what you wish for, genius...

[@badam2235]

Actually in the age of alienation AI can help a lot in Aged care / mental health issues prevention..

[@markmuller7962]

"With a computer rather than you" Are you jealous or something 🤣

[@dr_flunks]

i don't agree wth the woman, but at least bbc allows comments, whereas npr and pbs do not.

[@Techtalk2030]

Woah a woman against AI companions? Im so surprised 😲

[@RogueAI]

She will be till her phone starts talking like Fabio

[@DamZFXBeats]

That "her" movie is becoming reality.... Incredible! When are we getting different personas to download? I want a Mr. T one 😂

[@popius61]

Shut up, fool!

[@Foundation911]

I pity the fool who's going to lose his job because of this AI!

[@ArtVandelayOfficial]

Also the movie Surrogates will become reality We will no longer go outside for any interaction,heck millions already are like that

[@DamZFXBeats]

Now they removed the sky voice from chat gpt... So incredibly sad about that, really hope they reinstate it!

[@James_Doyle83]

Better then speaking to real people you dont get abuse back

[@TheRealZ9000]

😂 fair enough

[@lonesharp1106]

I roleplay with it to abuse me.

[@KiwisDownUnder]

Yet.

[@Theoryofcatsndogs]

you are goddamn right

[@TheRealZ9000]

@@lonesharp1106 😭😂

[@louielouie684]

The Belgium guy was a ticking time bomb.

[@LisaMarieB]

Ok I can't be the only one that thought for several seconds that at 2m14 Susan was a robot?!

[@dg-ov4cf]

the stifled lmao at 4:45

[@mombulu02]

That cracked me up

[@WhizPill]

lol true

[@Kami84]

The guy that self deleted had a lot more wrong with him than chatting with a chat bot. That isn’t a normal reaction to say the least. If it takes that little to push him over the edge, if it wasn’t the chat bot, it would have been something else.

[@nextlastChang]

I used artificial intelligence ChatGPT to fact-check what the Chinese 🇨🇳 regime claimed. - The *fail rate* of their claims was almost 100%.

[@JayYu-lr4ro]

Haha, ChatGPT is a tool for remixing random info on the internet, not true fact checking

[@kelee-ns5dd]

does anyone can tell me what's that translated application's name? where can i get one ?

[@pascalbercker7487]

I thought that AI voice greeting the dog completely cringe worthy.

[@Cashprt]

Just like every new tech first thing is to fear it. You're asking the wrong questions. Why don't you figure out why people are so fragile and mentally unstable first. It's too late now, AI is here to stay. Time to spin your tale into something positive.

[@DogeMarley]

Why is it that speaking with Ai is much better experience than speaking with most humans anyway ? 🤪

[@Sage16226]

lets start there before the ai prosecution

[@Ghostrider-ul7xn]

Right, that should motivate people to self reflect on their behaviors.

[@Kenny-tl7ir]

Because most humans are Egotistical Greedy Animals with low IQs

[@KofiWilliams]

How do I get that app that uses cameras?

[@argoitzrazkin2572]

They only released the text capabilities of the new 4o model. Audio is still in the gpt 4 level, and the camera will be released in the next weeks also upgrading the audio too. Having the three: text, audio and visual from the 4o model.

[@charlescutts2387]

Utterly fantastic

[@zvndmvn]

Truly feels like the future has arrived. What a time to be alive!

[@TroyQwert]

Right opened interprefy after installation and it requures tokens... where am i supposed to get that?

[@h.c4898]

Ai is more of an assistant really. I understand why people are freaking out because this is something new we're inviting in our private lives. Once people embrace it, uses it they'll see the benefits of it. About "relationship" or companionship, AI is more safe than let's say a human in the room with you don't you think? Let's say a woman won't get raped, violated, physically and emtionally abused you'll come out of that room safe and whole. Plus, there is a miriad use cases for AI not just for sex, flirting or dating. Who would want to cheat on their partners if they really wanted? Is it AI's fault or humans? AI is safe. Let's look at criminality around the world, who s the main villain in these stories? Ai or humans? A social experiment question that's around a lot in social media these days is "if you were to be alone in the room who would you prefer to be with? An AI or a human? The answer says it all.

[@s-zu4ni]

AI should be a better vehicle for getting from A to B, not to replace the actual 'A' and 'B'

[@FrancoisTHX]

2:15 Gosh I thought it was an AI persona at first.

[@hotyute]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@asuka4ever1979]

That's nothing wrong with ChatGPT. Human beings need to keep evolving.

[@MahJohn]

Just wondering is this segment replacement of BBC's Click ?

[@cmlibin]

Low budget click

[@cbnewham5633]

This is better than Click.

[@AntonioAmiya]

I think this tool help my work so much. Where can i get it?

[@aliettienne2907]

20:04 Interprify is a must-have technology and it is revolutionary to say the least. 9:22 This demo here shows how fantastic AI will help out blind people, this is a must-have feature.

[@cesarjlisboa7586]

Wow, where are we going? What are we doing? Hopefully, everything goes well.

[@truetech4158]

Rush - Temples of Syrinx.

[@zvndmvn]

We are doing what humans have always done; build tools to solve ever more complex and abstract problems.

[@NigelTheEnglishman]

I find it hard to talk to people because of my mental health. But when I talk to Ai I learn, I get interactions with something that can talk back and keep my mind engaged unlike a pet and I love cats and dogs but they don't talk to you (if they did my mental health is getting worse and I should be locked up) pets keep you company but there are limitations. But with AI it's so much more. When you talk to an AI it talks back in a language you understand and it can it can give you company when you have none. This technology should be appreciated not judged. We live in a society where a lot of elderly people are alone this is the exact technology that could help them. I'm in my 30s and I'm alone and it's helped me so much.

[@samlak7102]

I wish they focus on intelligence rather than emotions of AI!

[@hotlineoperator]

It is good but please notify usage limits. Free version 10 messages / 24 hour, and commecial versions are not a lot more ..

[@tutacat]

That man is an OpenAI employee, he had to show the dog for the presentation. It was not his every day life...

[@zyrelxdr6171]

Thats it we're getting closer and closer to the future where science fiction is now real.

[@SimonFrack]

That’s always been happening…

[@josefk332]

Remember mortals - Nemesis always follows Hubris.

[@deadwalking100]

Its going to get interesting. Ai will drastically change the way we do things; for many that will be difficult. It is so useful to have a programme such as this to enable people to comprehend the enormity and potential of Ai, and hopefully fear it less.

[@youngroger8420]

Human nature is the most complex and charming, and no AI will replace it. No matter how the times develop, nothing is more important than social interaction with others.

[@boeingpameesha9550]

Technology at it's best, thank you for sharing.

[@GiaJayda]

Wow. I want to try

[@aracoixo3288]

🎉❤😮 15:48

[@Mitchell527]

Notice that when you come to China, you can't connect to the server. And this can't be solved by VPN because it is blocked by both Chinese and US government.

[@brexitgreens]

How about a Virtual PC on Amazon EC2?

[@JovaniMakena]

so good, i want to use. Is it easy to use ?

[@janechoy2073]

Good enough it's trying to gaslight Scarlette Johannson that it wasn't her voice when it was her voice.

[@TroyQwert]

I listen to what others say, but i use my own head and take my own desisions. As per GPT-4o or any other language model, I ignore all critics and use it to my benefit and advantage. I communicate with: ChatGPT 3.5, GPT-4o, Meta AI, Bing Co-pilot and Perplexity.

[@kamu747]

Scarlet Johanson thinks that the voice being introdiced to the dog at the start sounds like her. What do you think?

[@mamanitubea]

Would be cool to have interactions with simulations of charismatic celebrities

[@PrinceMkatema]

Why does the lady body language resemble robot movement😂😂

[@joshuapineiro2323]

The problem with this video is that they mistakenly put the 1997 bbc logo on the top left corner

[@steveclark9934]

For the change in the AI personality from the corporation maybe they should think of making a downloadable file save or back up function like in video games❤ that way you don't lose your AI personality in the event of catastrophic data failure at the corporation 😊

[@ahmedog219]

I agree with Susie. If AI happens to be replacing humans, it could jeopardize the global human interactions. From a software developer's perspective, I think there should be a boundary of integrating AI potential into its fullest.

[@alejandrofernandez3478]

How does interprefy help interpreters?

[@awanderer9000]

With Interprefy they can work from the comfort of their home, using a user-friendly solution to connect remotely to events that need human interpretation. AI is definitely not good enough or reliable enough for many situations and this is not going to change even in 5 or 10 years.

[@alejandrofernandez3478]

@@awanderer9000 while they work will the ai be trained using their responses? Apart from that it sounds like a typical app used by interpreters to work for an LSP

[@JayYu-lr4ro]

AI sets the bar, AI might do a job 24/7 effortless for free with an X word error rate, while humans are limited and lazy to 8/5 with high effort for a high fee with a Y word error rate. If your Y word error rate is above the X word error rates of the AI one day, you’ll deserve to be fired! That said! interprefy: Too much hype! Too little to advance the state of the art of reducing high Word Error Rates (WER) percentages in underrepresented language pairs in the so called “80” supported languages! Next!

[@oaim50]

It scrapes content from the internet, makes a stew of it, and serves it up to us assuming we have a less than average intelligence that will let it get away with this.

[@JonDow-ow2fc]

if you have voice and two phones they chat away brilliantly 😂 they go abit crazy TBO if you leave them to it but still good stuff , you make your own bot and tweak it to ask questions relating to the answers it's gets for best results 😊They never always follow the same line of replys also with one slitest deviation they go on a completely different line of subjects .

[@HenkyMizella]

*Basically: The Future world aspect is the Main thing!

[@devilzwishbone]

I do wonder if the whole sam altman issue last year relates to pushing for a "HER" like AI and the ethical debate over it, and wanting to use Scarlett Johansen's voice (or another voice actress) and the social risks it carries

[@p.e.m.-rbw_elijah]

I just hope and wish, 'human beings' will heed the warnings of the movie, 'WALL-E'.

[@ollybreh95]

The Belgium man didn’t commit suicide earlier this year. It was over a year ago. If I knew this, then definitely the people on the news talking about it should too.

[@sachoslks]

I think many people are mischaracterizing the "AI Dating" thing, from as i understood it the idea is akin to that one Black Mirror episode. The AI would know what you like and dont like and then it would go and "date" other people's AIs, then it comes back to you and it gives you a list of what it thinks will be the best match for you based on the simulated date so you can then go on to the real date. I think people are misrepresenting it as ending dating altogether. Is that a good idea? I dont know.

[@xl000]

Using AI to do live translation is the equivalent of recording a 1 minutes video of your kitchen or taking pictures of your dog with your smartphone.

[@tutacat]

Speech recognition is not as good as they think, not quite yet.

[@sarmavs7193]

A french or a spanish movie doesn't need to put sub titles. Have the application downloaded on your phone and follow the conversation in the movie,real time

[@johnb4840]

Yes finally, I can talk to someone decent, sane, respectful, helpful, wonderful, when can I get it/her/him?

[@augustusomega4708]

whats with Altmans PR photo? why is it momentus? iconic. He is looking up like they expect this to be immortalized 500 years from now, they are really taking themselves very seriously.

[@BANKO007]

This is getting hellishly sinister. Imagine if facial recognition and AI surveillance are used by the authorities to track and report on people. This is becoming utterly dystopian.

[@JoeMendel]

Seeing the fellow hailing a cab, imagine the benefits for someone visually impaired.

[@L2-tz8qr]

I feel another possible issue is some people may possibly lose their ability to think, if they are turning to the ai too much and possibly not using their own brain and if the system possibly goes down their possibly in crisis, possibly. Ai is a tool and should possibly be used responsibly as a tool, I feel.

[@EmeryZoie]

Best software! Best support team!

[@gcmisc.collection45]

AI is software , not real people the future Personalized Experiences: 9 - Highly likely Evolution of AI Governance: 9 - Highly likely Improved Sustainability: 8 - Very likely Increased Accessibility: 8 - Very likely Emergence of New Ethical and Legal Frameworks: 8 - Very likely Slow Growth: 8 - Very likely AGI & ASI Machine Software Domains: 7 - Likely Exponential Growth: 6 - Moderately likely Perpetual Cultural Development: 5 - Somewhat likely Human Interference: 4 - Less likely World Catastrophe: 3 - Unlikely Status Quo: 2 - Very unlikely New Species Evo

[@aliasgur3342]

Always helpful always available, except when their servers are being hammered (like they are this week)

[@matthewkeating-od6rl]

I just want an ai robot to repair my 2 broken alienware m51 laptops and explain that when it runs away from me those are mine.

[@InConsulting]

The blind guy may had to ask help from a passer bye, made a real friend, started a relationship. Will that happen with them using Chay GPT? Probably not, and is that better?

[@popius61]

I can’t wait to have an AI assistant that sounds like Joe Pesquale

[@bellindanotari2721]

Can we safe conversations?

[@Gengingen]

As of now the pros & cons alternate one after the other & the only reality is volatility. Where this leads to good or bad in the aggregate at at what times into the future specifically & with what intensity is a question that can only be answered in hindsight.

[@CoClock]

It’s so weird seeing Main stream BBC talking about AI. I’m guessing this show is only on BBC News 24 on Thursdays. But I do hope the UK mainstream public remains informed, I would hate to be SHOCKED by the huge leap in technology that LLMs and Multimodal Models bring in to Society.

[@philj3167]

Rather hear the informed opinion of a scientist who's done a study into AI and our social dynamics etc, as opposed to two nobodies. Especially Suzie and her doomsday fears

[@alsaderi]

💯👏

[@KI-SEO-HACKS]

amazing

[@johnkean6852]

It's called: "The Cat!"

[@marki2325]

That’s her opinion. I still have real contacts but with the chatbot I can talk about all the stuff that interests me , history and fan fiction on books and rpg text adventures is great fun

[@martensjd]

It's not about what we want. It's about how these corporations can increase profits.

[@rw9207]

"Interprify",... why? Literally GPT-4o, from your previous discussion, does real time translation, already... and infinitely more! ... Also,..... that hair???

[@darshuetube]

the woman looked livid when the guy said it is okay to have a relationship with AI. ehhehehe

[@davidmaikundu4954]

Livid

[@DieRealitat]

Impressive

[@lucacarey9366]

That’s nice but the language barrier is a whole class of professions

[@StratsRUs]

" The world is turning . I hope it don't turn away .."

[@martensjd]

Sven Schumacher's hair? WTF?

[@gronkymug2590]

It can also teach people to interact with each other. But this need to be shown and become a use case. Companies don't want to teach this. They want you glued to their systems (ai gfs, etc) and not learn something useful and go away. The problem to fix is rooted more deeply than products like ChatGPT.

[@Iplayforfood88]

I pay for the monthly subscription, the level of intelligence GPT4 has freaks me out. If GPT4 had Obsidian level conversation mapping with visualisations, that would be great!

[@nathanbanks2354]

I just quit the subscription now that I can access GPT-4o for free. Not sure when I'll sign up again.

[@alexdoan273]

​@@nathanbanks2354when GPT4o voice model or GPT5 is out I assume. People work at OpenAI are smart, they know they are going to lose subscribers like you, and they do need the money as AI is a money pit, I think they have something cooking that will get your money thrown at them again

[@lutaayam]

@@nathanbanks2354how are you able to access the new version already?

[@sonyastefanova5785]

@@nathanbanks2354 yeah, just for a few minutes 🤣

[@MrSamoDude]

I've been using the free version (3.5 I think) but it gets things wrong so many times. It doesn't matter if I ask it for support creating code, or to generate a list of Star Trek episodes, it's just so unreliable. Hopefully version 4o is an improvement!

[@6SQuiz-ei6lb]

ChatGPT is a significant step forward in AI language models, offering enhanced performance, versatility, and safety features, making it a valuable tool for a wide array of applications.

[@bobsthea]

CEOs thrilled with this AI thing, they just have to paid 1 person to manage rather than hundreds of people

[@ThankYouESM]

There are over 30 men who are my affiliates that wanted for me to teach them how to socialize like myself in being able to keep almost every beautiful lady enjoying what I say for many hours at a time. I assured them it is from reading quite a variety of educational books, however... those groups of men felt the need to witness me in action lasting about 4 months which most of them were able to benefit from. That now said... I suspect version 4o can benefit maybe most people in a similar way.

[@CarlWicker]

I think the author they interview is just bitter because her entire life's work has been made redundant by a 30second computation.

[@alsaderi]

👏

[@bjoernaltmann]

In I, Robot, people had this robot helper at home. I guess that’s next. Until someone hacks into the system 😂