First impressions of GPT-4o

Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science, LLM

Daniel & Chris share their first impressions of OpenAI’s newest LLM: GPT-4o and Daniel tries to bring the model into the conversation with humorously mixed results. Together, they explore the implications of Omni’s new feature set - the speed, the voice interface, and the new multimodal capabilities.

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Featuring:

• Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Hello GPT-4o
• AI Engineer World’s Fair
• AIQCON - the AI Quality Conference
• Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That’s a Good Thing)

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1. Welcome to Practical AI (00:00:00)

2. AI & protein synthesis (00:00:43)

3. GPT-4o (00:05:09)

4. Changes from 4 to 4o (00:06:43)

5. Video modality (00:10:06)

6. Sponsor: Ladder Life Insurance (00:12:31)

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7. What should we talk about? (00:14:36)

8. Privacy concerns (00:15:57)

9. AI in the real world (00:20:19)

10. Sponsor: Neo4j (00:24:20)

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11. Migrating to a Kubernetes cluster (00:25:39)

12. GPT conversations (00:26:46)

13. Future of AI gadgets (00:27:40)

14. Where is value coming from? (00:29:24)

15. Shrinking gap between Open & closed models (00:34:24)

16. HuggingFace GPU compute (00:35:07)

17. Learning resources (00:37:46)

18. GPT closes us out (00:41:06)

19. Outro (00:42:42)