The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog
- OpenAI has been releasing and teasing a lot of products recently, some of them more likely to turn out successful than others. We go into them in this blog.
- For one, the secretive somewhat-under-wraps project with code name “Strawberry” points to new steps toward technology that either is artificial general intelligence (A.G.I.), or closely resembling it.
- Another exciting one is the search engine project, which apparently has led OpenAI to go so far as to attempt courting Google employees to the project.
- ChatGPT’s newest flagship model is GPT-4o, which seeks to be truly multimodal in being able to work in various mediums during a conversation.
- For business owners that use ChatGPT and other OpenAI products, these new and upcoming projects could have a lot of applications, further augmenting use of A.I.
Are These Major Endeavors, or Just Pet Projects?
The current state of the A.I. race is that because there is more than one way to develop A.I., many companies are working on several pet projects that are directly competitive with other major companies’ A.I. projects, pet or primary.
“A.I.” is not just one type of thing, but rather refers to a huge and varied array of applications and platforms. From price prediction of raw materials to generating epic poems about seafaring walruses, there are just so many areas for companies to target in developing A.I.
And since this is the norm, it is worth looking into these recent announcements by OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. Which of these will pay off? We consider that question below.
Project Strawberry
The idea of this one is to create an A.I. that can perform “deep” research and work on complex problems.
A human-intelligence comparison here is that this A.I. will resemble a capable researcher who has a Ph.D.
What this means is that business owners will be able to give quite challenging business problems to such an A.I. platform. If such A.I. is possible, then it will indeed be likely able to solve certain classes of problems at a much faster rate than a human being would.
Considering that A.I. does not have to sleep and feels no emotions, this can mean it can work for 24/7 until a difficult problem is solved. However, the issue of “no emotions” means that A.I. is likely best suited for more unambiguous problems that do not involve more human, emotional elements.
To be more specific here, this means that the A.I. will likely be a great asset in, say, the accounting department where you are looking at a lot of numbers-crunching. It would probably be a pretty disastrous idea to put even a high-level A.I. platform to the task of helping resolve interpersonal conflicts in the human resources department.
ChatGPT 4-o
OpenAI describes this as the next “flagship model”. The “o” stands for “omni” (= all), which refers to the multiple (= not all, necessarily) mediums–“vision”, audio, text– that the platform can “reason” across in real time.
This multimodality is exciting for many because it enables a greater fluidity in conversations with the A.I. If you need to create a project with multiple elements, like a written white paper with both audio and video, then A.I. that can easily cover all those elements in just a single conversation thread is impressive.
Not only is it impressive, but it is also useful and convenient. Conversations with the platform will feel much more natural.
That also comes with some additional upgrades to the A.I. system. You will get better results across all mediums, from the images to the audio. Also, it is quite quick at understanding audio inputs, in case you want to speak your prompt instead of write it out.
Search Engine
When drawing up a prognosis for the potential success of these OpenAI projects, this is the one that this writer has some serious reservations about.
Why the reservations?
Here is the deal, according to the writer of this article: OpenAI has enough funding and support from Microsoft and presumably the talent to create a quality search engine, no doubt about that.
But what search engine has ever been able to supplant Google in popularity?
What search engine could entice business owners to make it the primary focus of their SEO efforts?
If merely matching Google in ability is not enough, in what ways would the search engine have to significantly surpass Google’s search engine to become the dominant one?
For the question about business owners, the best answer would probably be to first figure out how to cause a great Google-to-OpenAI search-engine migration of potential and existing customers for the business. If more users are on the OpenAI search engine, then naturally businesses would have an interest in advertising on that platform.
