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OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4o tops leaderboards as it upgrades creativity

TLDR

  • OpenAI’s upgraded GPT-4o model is praised for its more “natural, engaging, and tailored” outputs, outperforming rivals in creativity benchmarks like EQ-Bench and surpassing Google’s Gemini Experimental by 20 points.
  • Users have tested GPT-4o's capabilities with creative tasks, sparking debates about the originality of AI and its reliance on pre-existing data for generating insights.
  • OpenAI faces scrutiny over copyright concerns and its use of vast data for training, as it restructures toward profitability and raises $6.6 billion in venture capital, valuing the company at over $150 billion.

OpenAI has upgraded its ChatGPT-4o model to write in a more “natural, engaging, and tailored” manner. The large language model, or LLM, is the AI company’s flagship, often used as the bar of quality in the industry.

Some have hailed the update as “insane”, posting an Eminem-styled AI-written rap. Others have tried to measure its creativity in a more data-centric way.

The maintainer of EQ-Bench, an “emotional intelligence benchmark for LLMs”, has found that GPT-4o beats out the competition by several points. This places it at the top of its leaderboards.

Other benchmarks have now put the update at the top of other leaderboards, clearing Google’s Gemini Experimental model by almost 20 points.

OpenAI doesn’t delve any further than saying that it has been tuned to be more creative. The company’s CEO, Sam Altman, simply stated “good new model out!” in a post on X.

However, how the creativity is being measured or improved is being questioned. One user, an art advocate asked if GPT-4o had started “observing the world [and] finding its own insights… its own non-derivative point of view?”

This is about the fact that LLMs cannot create what they don’t already have on hand. When ChatGPT launched, it couldn’t tell you anything after a certain date in 2021. OpenAI, and competing companies, train these models on massive quantities of data. It has led to an outcry over copyright infringement, something which the New York Times is currently suing OpenAI over.

The AI company itself admitted that it couldn’t train its models without infringing on copyright. Other companies in the same arena, like Nvidia, have been caught harvesting hours of Netflix to train video generators.

OpenAI plans to become a for-profit company as it restructures itself. This has led to multiple figures at the company leaving. OpenAI has also raised one of the largest rounds of venture capitalist investment, totaling $6.6 billion, as its value continues to rocket over $150 billion.

Featured image: OpenAI, Pexels/Pixabay

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Joel Loynds
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Joel Loynd’s obsession with uncovering bad games and even worse hardware so you don’t have to has led him on this path. Since the age of six, he’s been poking at awful games and oddities from his ever-expanding Steam library. He’s been writing about video games since 2008, writing for sites such as WePC and PC Guide, as well as covering gaming for Scan Computers, More recently Joel was Dexerto’s E-Commerce and Deputy Tech Editor, delving deep into the exploding handheld market and covering the weird and wonderful world of the latest tech.

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