ChatGPT Gets a Turbo Update
If you pay for ChatGPT, be it Plus, Team or Enterprise, GPT-4 Turbo is now even better. In a post Thursday on X (formerly Twitter), OpenAI announced that the latest version of its GPT-4 Turbo model is now available to all paid ChatGPT users, along with some exciting updates.
So what’s new? It’s all a bit general, but OpenAI says the newest version of GPT-4 Turbo is now better at writing, math, reasoning and coding. The graph in the announcement shows that the April 9 version of GPT-4 Turbo improved in almost every category than the January 25 GPT-4 Turbo of this year.Some metrics are more dramatic than others : the biggest jump is seen in GPQA , an artificial intelligence test covering scientific data sets, where GPT-Turbo improved from 39.7% to 49.1%; and the MATH test, which improved from 64.2% to 72.2%.
Interestingly, the January GPT-4 Turbo model only beats the April one in the HumanEval test , which tests LLM’s code generation ability: the former scored 88.2%, while the new model only scored 87.6%. Small difference, but an interesting step back that OpenAI doesn’t take into account.
What OpenAI is specifically focusing on, however, is improving the overall experience of using ChatGPT with the new GPT-Turbo, which is what users like me will likely notice the most anyway. The company says that when you write with ChatGPT, the model’s responses will be “more direct, less wordy, and use more conversational language.” You can see this in the example OpenAI uses in its post: it asks ChatGPT to generate an SMS to remind friends to RSVP to a birthday dinner. January’s GPT-4 Turbo model prompts a long-winded response that, while potentially useful, does seem AI-generated in some areas. However, the latter model generates a shorter, more casual reminder to RSVP.
Perhaps more importantly, the GPT-4 Turbo dataset covers the period up to December 2023. The previous version was stuck at April 2023, meaning it lacked context for the entire year. While the new GPT-4 Turbo won’t know anything about 2024 unless you connect it to the Internet, it will have eight months more information about current events than before.