OpenAI makes ChatGPT 'more direct and less verbose'

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ChatGPT, the viral AI-powered chatbot from OpenAI, just got a big upgrade.

OpenAI today announced that premium ChatGPT users — customers who pay for ChatGPT Plus, Team, or Enterprise — can now take advantage of an updated and improved version of GPT-4 Turbo, one of the models that powers the conversational ChatGPT experience.

This new model (“gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09”) brings with it improvements in writing, mathematics, logical reasoning and programming, OpenAI claims, as well as a more modern knowledge base. It was trained on publicly available data until December 2023, unlike the previous version of GPT-4 Turbo available on ChatGPT, which had an April 2023 deadline.

When writing with ChatGPT [with the new GPT-4 Turbo]The answers will be more direct, less verbose and will use more conversational language,” OpenAI wrote in a post on X.

The ChatGPT update — which follows GA's launch on Tuesday of new models in the OpenAI API, notably GPT-4 Turbo with Vision, which adds image understanding capabilities to the plain-text-only GPT-4 Turbo — arrives after an uninteresting week for OpenAI .

Reporting From The Intercept revealed that Microsoft has offered OpenAI's DALL-E text-to-image model as a battlefield tool for the US military. And the, According to In an article in The Information magazine, OpenAI recently fired two researchers — including an ally of chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, who was among those who pushed for the ouster of CEO Sam Altman late last year — for allegedly leaking information.