GPT-4o, a mini GPT5?
Having played with most models in the world over the last 24 months, I was pleasantly surprised by GPT-4o for a few reasons.
Firstly, GPT-4o’s demos during the spring release video were honest and real-time. Yes, they were inevitably cherry-picked, but they were really slick, and I love that they didn’t over-edit the video, showing moments like when 4o thought one of the researchers was a table…😂. This shows they have confidence in the robustness of the technology. Even under pressure cooker situations.
Secondly, the zero-shot performance seems to be off the charts. This is something few are shouting about, but I think it represents an unbelievable step forward in intelligence and reasoning. Still NOT AGI but a step forward over GPT4t
And thirdly, its speed. 4o is getting a bit of a battering on X etc. at the moment, with some saying speed = lower intelligence, but with speed, the use cases where agents can be deployed are expanding, and if I can do 3 agents in the time it took GPT4 to produce one response… it’s going to be orders of magnitude more useful in more use cases.
My takeaway 🥡
The combination of speed and improved intelligence could leave everything that came before in the dust. As close to AGI as we currently have.
Proof read by GPT4o
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