OpenAI's newest model, GPT-4o, is predicted to shake up multiple industries, but its email writing skills might need some work.
During a flashy display Monday, the company unveiled the latest version of the generative AI model predicted to shake up multiple industries: GPT-4o.
GPT-4o is already available as a chatbot on ChatGPT, which many workers use for boring, text-based tasks. Free ChatGPT users are stuck with GPT-3.5 but get limited access to a handful of responses from GPT-4o, per OpenAI's pricing page.
The ChatGPT Plus membership costs $20 a month and includes more answers from the faster GPT-4o model, access to GPT-4, and features like an image generator.
As someone who has previously tried and grown frustrated with ChatGPT's inability to write non-robotic-sounding emails, I wanted to see if GPT-4o would actually help me out for once.
Using ChatGPT's "temporary chat" feature to prevent the chatbot from spitting out similar responses based on previous answers, I tested three available versions of the chatbot — GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and GPT-4o — using three different email prompts to see if GPT-4o is superior to the earlier versions. Here's what I found.