GPT-4 is Finally Here and These Are the Key Things You Must Know

A step closer to AGI?

Ignacio de Gregorio
7 min readMar 14, 2023
AGI peaking through the door. Source: Author with MidJourney

The time has come.

GTP-4 is finally being released this week, as Microsoft Germany’s CTO, Andreas Braun, announced three days ago.

This new model comes with huge hype across the entire world in what can be seen as one of the events of the year with regard to AI.

But before the model is released and tested by society, we can predict what features the model is going to offer thanks to something Microsoft released a few days ago that few noticed.

And guys, the potential for disruption is amazing.

But should humanity be afraid?

Multimodality and a ‘Kosmostic’ future

Besides the actual announcement of the model being released, the other great news from Microsoft Germany’s CTO event was that GPT-4 will be multimodal.

And that can’t be understated, as multimodality is praised as a necessary next step to achieve AGI, or Artificial General Intelligence, the main goal humanity is looking for — or rather fearing — regarding AI.

But what is multimodality and why it is so important?

Multimodal means much more than what it…

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