ChatGPT-4, or Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer Four, is the latest release of OpenAI’s popular Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot and language model. ChatGPT-4 can mimic human responses to user questions and interpret 26 languages, and users can add pictures, emojis, and other files into the platform to prompt the system for a response.
For those willing to pay, OpenAI makes the tool available on its website for a $20 monthly fee, which also includes priority access to new features as the provider releases them. But other providers offer free ChatGPT-4 access through their own products and services, such as Microsoft’s Bing search engine, for example.
While OpenAI will likely make it fully available to general users in the future, here’s a look in the meantime at how to access the features and functions of ChatGPT-4 for free as well as some of the benefits and disadvantages of using the chatbot technology.
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While ChatGPT-4 is a powerful tool that uses advanced technology, it’s still capable of producing factually inaccurate and misleading information. Users need to proceed with caution when relying on the chatbot for use cases where accuracy matters. Here are some of the advantages and disadvantages of using ChatGPT-4.
4. Users are redirected to the chat page where they can ask questions or add attachments to interact with ChatGPT-4, which will respond as the chosen persona.
4. Type a question or prompt into the chat box and press enter to start using ChatGPT.
OpenAI designed ChatGPT-4 to be reliable, accurate and capable of handling tasks to benefit users. But it is better at some tasks than others, and before relying on ChatGPT-4, a user or business should know when to use it and when to not.
ChatGPT-4 can help users learn to code by automating simple tasks such as file input and output (I/O) operations and database activities. When asked to teach coding, ChatGPT-4 offers advice on how to start, which is especially useful for non-experts wanting to learn simple techniques.
ChatGPT-4 can help teachers, professors and students grow their knowledge as well as create study guides, quizzes, tests and lesson plans. From translating languages to answering specific questions, ChatGPT-4 can give more access to educators and students. With the new ability to upload files or pictures to ChatGPT-4, it can also grade simple tests, correct errors and provide feedback to help students better understand what they are learning.
ChatGPT-4 can handle customer questions and provide assistance across various industries, preventing time wasted on tedious customer service calls and letting employees focus on more difficult tasks. ChatGPT-4 can answer frequently asked questions, provide troubleshooting guidance, and offer general support.
ChatGPT-4 can generate many different types of creative content, including blog posts, social media updates, product descriptions and song lyrics. It can generate content based on image prompts and up to 25,000 words of text, assisting content creators by offering ideas, creating drafts and editing some writing.
ChatGPT-4 can find personalized recommendations and recommend movies or other media. Companies can use Machine Learning (ML) and AI to find the right audience for their advertisements and find new users that might be interested.
Whether due to its inaccuracy, inability to contextualize information, or other flaws, ChatGPT-4 is not a reliable source of assistance when it comes to certain tasks. Here are a few to help provide context around when an AI chatbot can be helpful and when it might be better to find another solution.
ChatGPT-4 should not be trusted to offer personalized advice on legal, financial, medical or other matters as a replacement for certified professionals. Consult with a qualified expert instead.
ChatGPT-4 learns from the people who use it, and it may accidentally share other users’ chat histories. This is a privacy concern for any company.
ChatGPT-4 has had many privacy issues, including Samsung’s data leak. Some countries have banned ChatGPT-4 to protect citizens from any data leaks that might occur. Personal and business data should never be shared with ChatGPT-4.
Because of how the LLM works, by trying to understand a user’s prompt and generating strings of words that complete it based on the information upon which it was trained, ChatGPT-4 may provide inaccurate information. OpenAI advises users that the tool “sometimes writes plausible-sounding but incorrect or nonsensical answers,” and it should not be relied upon to provide accurate information unchecked.
ChatGPT has become one of the most well-known AI tools currently accessible for public use, and the latest release is a more efficient, accurate chatbot than any prior versions. OpenAI calls ChatGPT-4 its “most advanced system, producing safer and more useful responses.” Free or inexpensive access to ChatGPT-4 gives more users the ability to benefit from the product for a wide range of uses. While it is easy to use, it is still better at some things than others and users need to remain aware of its limitations around accuracy, reliability and privacy.
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