Hat Zoph, a The research leader at OpenAI, was recently demonstrating the new GPT-4o model and its ability to detect human emotions using a smartphone camera when ChatGPT mistakenly identified his face as a wooden table. After a quick laugh, Zoph assured GPT-4o that it’s not a table and asked the AI tool to take another look at the app’s live video instead of a photo that share previously “Ah, that makes more sense,” ChatGPT’s AI voice said, before describing her facial expression and potential emotions.
On Monday, OpenAI released a new model for ChatGPT that can process text, audio and images. In a surprising twist, the company announced that this model, GPT-4o, would be available for free, with no subscription required. This is a departure from the company’s previous GPT-4 release, which was released in March 2023 for those who pay OpenAI’s $20 monthly subscription to ChatGPT Plus. In this current version, many of the features that were previously limited to paid subscribers, such as memory and web browsing, are also being rolled out to free users.
