I missed last week's OpenAI keynote, but today I realized how important this event was and watched it, thanks to the latest Radio-T. I continue to listen to it for the second decade precisely for such moments, so as not to miss something global.
Apple presentations are not so interesting to watch now, I'll tell you. From Altman's performance I caught the vibes of those same keynotes from Jobs with the presentation of the first iPhone and the first iPad. In exactly the same way half the timing you sit amazed at what they're showing you some things, the proximity of which you couldn't even imagine.
If anyone missed it, GPT-4 Turbo became available there, which is better and cheaper (debatable), longer context, makes mistakes less often, easier to control. But this is all boring.
Not boring is that any plugins that you previously had to switch to manually are now activated automatically and this is some kind of madness. An experience you always wanted but couldn't imagine was possible. For example, DALLe, which seems to have already caught up with Midjourney on many points, can just be a continuation of any conversation. You can upload some meme from your saves, ask ChatGPT why this meme is funny, and then ask it to draw something completely different, but with ideas taken from this picture, and then also correct it with additional prompts. Or upload some document with a table, ask to calculate something, it will write code in Python itself, run it somewhere and return the result.
But even greater admiration from me is from GPTs. Roughly speaking, they gave an interface to make custom GPTs with ChatGPT help, pre-configured for some specific tasks. And gave the opportunity to publish them in their store. Well, that's it, there's no way back, half the internet went to come up with their assistants. Thousands of businesses are just on the verge of closing from this announcement alone.
On the other hand, they gave the ability to configure the ChatGPT API in such a way that it's convenient to use in your applications. They showed on the example of a travel planning site: asked through text API for top 10 activities in Paris, and it listed and returned it all as JSON with coordinates, thanks to which the site scattered markers on the map. And that's not all, they uploaded a PDF with flight tickets and Airbnb there, thanks to which it pulled everything needed and showed it in the interface. And this, damn, is not some custom logic on the site itself, this is ChatGPT read the document and returned it via API. This is, damn, Low code.
OpenAI at the current stage somehow everything quite fabulously comes together into an amazing ecosystem, features literally come out of thin air and one more amazing than the other, the development pace is unreal. I have a whole palette of impressions, starting from "wow, how cool is this", to "what insignificant nonsense I'm doing" and "we're all going to die". We can't imagine in less than a year how to live without ChatGPT, yes.