Sorry to keep you waiting. OpenAI's GPT-4 now comes with image recognition capabilities. To be precise, it was demonstrated when it debuted in March of this year, but it has only now been made available to users after half a year. I recently tried the new feature in ChatGPT+ and, in a word, it's incredible!

By the way, the image mentioned above was also created with a combination of GPT-4 and DALL-E3.

Now, let's start the experiment!

First, we'll start with recognizing mobile-phones. It can accurately count the number of mobile-phones. This is a piece of cake.

I thought flight information would be challenging, but it identified the destination impeccably. Since it's originally an excellent language model, it seems proficient in deriving meaning from images.

It can even read Osaka's Tsutenkaku tower. Local information is no problem.

For a change, I inserted an image of analysis results. It can read graphs effortlessly. This is impressive!

What shocked me was that it could easily count cars. Of course, it's not a specialized object detection model, so errors will always occur. I believe there were about 48 cars in this photo, but for general use, this margin of error seems acceptable. It's astonishing what it can do by just being given an image.

It can count cans, but the error is relatively significant. It might struggle with cluttered items.

It works well to read English text in an OCR-like manner.

It can also easily read the time displayed on electronic signboards.

How did you find it? Without any fine-tuning, it achieved this much. GPT-4V has just been launched, and various use cases are likely to emerge in the future. I look forward to introducing interesting examples here as they arise. Stay tuned!

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