GPT4o kills tutoring jobs

OpenAI Announces GPT4o Model

Earlier this week, OpenAI announced their latest and greatest model, called Chat-GPT4o. Then they made it free for everyone, not just paid subscribers.

During the live presentation, they showed off a demo of the new model and it’s crazy capabilities. The model allows “multi-modal” forms of interaction, meaning you can stream video now in conversations with GPT4o from your camera or even your device.

The presenters showed off a few use-cases, including real-time translation between an Italian Speaker and English speaker and solving basic algebra problems through the phone’s camera.

The new voice model has voice intonations that sound more human-like, with fluctuations in tone and the ability to convey emotions. Weird. Very HER-like.

A Tutor in Your Pocket

My favorite demo featured Kahn Academy Founder Sal Kahn and his son, running GPT4o on an iPad and streaming a trigonometry problem from the devices screen. GPT is able to see the iPad’s screen and nudge the student towards the answer.

The ability to bring catered tutoring to students anywhere in the world with internet access is a game-changer. Tutors can be expensive or just not available to many families. Packaging a 200 IQ Tutor into software and making it easy to use for students is impactful to education.

The Rise of AI Agents

One last creepy demo I saw was this tweet with the title “99% of the economy will be AIs talking to each other”. 

Two GPT4o’s are set up next to each other to have a conversation. One is role-playing as a customer service rep at a cell phone company. The other is acting as a personal assistant to the user and has the goal of getting a replacement phone.

The conversation flows smoothly and sounds just like two generic customer service employees talking to each other. Will we all have personal agents calling around for us in the future? Is there not a better means of communication for two AI’s? We’ve retrofitted them to use our tools. It’s weird. It’s exciting. Most people aren’t prepared for it!

What’s this mean for IT pros?

I think we are all going to be using AI models in our daily workflows. The ability to stream your computer’s screen and have a conversation with a bot about what’s going on opens up lots of new possibilities too.

Imagine learning to code and having a personal tutor watching you and nudging you towards the answer.

What other topics could AI help you to learn?

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