A new report by the German publication Heise claims OpenAI's GPT-4 will be introduced next week
and could potentially be multimodal, meaning the AI model may be able
to analyze, respond to, and/or generate images and videos in addition to
text. Heise attributed the update to Andreas Braun, CTO of Microsoft Germany and lead of Data & AI STU.
- Braun reportedly made the announcement at Microsoft's "AI in Focus — Digital Kickoff" today.
- According
to a Heise translation, Braun said they "will introduce GPT-4 next
week," and it will involve "multimodal models that will offer completely
different possibilities — for example, videos."
- He was joined
by Marianne Janik, Microsoft Germany CEO, who said AI is not about
replacing employees but filling in for repetitive tasks in new ways.
- At the time of this writing, neither Microsoft nor OpenAI had confirmed or denied the news.
- During a January interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman commented on the future release of GPT-4, saying that "people are begging to be disappointed, and they will be."
- He
declined to say when the company's next GPT language model will be
released, commenting only that it will "come out at some point when we
are confident we can do it safely and responsibly."
- Microsoft is hosting a "future of work with AI" special event on March 16th at 8 a.m. PT / 11 a.m. ET.
