Contemporary · North America · Technology

2023

GPT-4 released

March 14, 2023

OpenAI unveiled the successor to the model that had launched ChatGPT, this one capable of looking at images, passing the bar exam, and reasoning across long documents. Microsoft had wired it into Bing days earlier. The pace of AI capability gains had shifted from yearly to monthly, and panic and investment surged together.

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Era

Contemporary (2001–2026), one of 196 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: GPT-4