The author further discusses how GPT-4 users can generate and execute Python code, pass URLs or search queries for GPT-4 to explore, or generate images with DALL-E 3 thanks to function calls. However, the author notes that recent changes have made GPT-4 less effective or unable to cite specific lines or reproduce quotes from any website it visits. The author speculates that these changes could be due to OpenAI's efforts to avoid copyright issues or as a cost-cutting measure.
Key takeaways:
- The article discusses recent changes made to GPT-4 by OpenAI, which have significantly altered the model’s web browsing tools, preventing it from directly citing quotes from webpages and limiting viewing of full content.
- OpenAI introduced function calling in its API in July 2023, which allows users to describe a function that a GPT model can choose to call, filling out a JSON object with the function parameters.
- ChatGPT’s browsing tools currently consist of `search` (find Bing search results), `mclick` (to retrieve contents of search results), and `open_url` (to open any URL, intended for user provided websites), but this hasn’t always been the case.
- The changes made to GPT-4 seem to be primarily aimed at eliminating copyright issues and possibly reducing costs, but they have resulted in a decrease in the quality of responses and the model's ability to fact check articles and websites.