OpenAI To Release 'Materially Better' GPT-5 For Its Chatbot Mid-Year, Report Says 13
An anonymous reader shares a report: The generative AI company helmed by Sam Altman is on track to put out GPT-5 sometime mid-year, likely during summer, according to two people familiar with the company. Some enterprise customers have recently received demos of the latest model and its related enhancements to the ChatGPT tool, another person familiar with the process said. These people, whose identities Business Insider has confirmed, asked to remain anonymous so they could speak freely. "It's really good, like materially better," said one CEO who recently saw a version of GPT-5.
OpenAI demonstrated the new model with use cases and data unique to his company, the CEO said. He said the company also alluded to other as-yet-unreleased capabilities of the model, including the ability to call AI agents being developed by OpenAI to perform tasks autonomously. The company does not yet have a set release date for the new model, meaning current internal expectations for its release could change. OpenAI is still training GPT-5, one of the people familiar said. After training is complete, it will be safety tested internally and further "red teamed," a process where employees and typically a selection of outsiders challenge the tool in various ways to find issues before it's made available to the public.
OpenAI demonstrated the new model with use cases and data unique to his company, the CEO said. He said the company also alluded to other as-yet-unreleased capabilities of the model, including the ability to call AI agents being developed by OpenAI to perform tasks autonomously. The company does not yet have a set release date for the new model, meaning current internal expectations for its release could change. OpenAI is still training GPT-5, one of the people familiar said. After training is complete, it will be safety tested internally and further "red teamed," a process where employees and typically a selection of outsiders challenge the tool in various ways to find issues before it's made available to the public.
"Materially better" (Score:1)
We're reaching unreasonable hype levels so high that we're entering the "Plain ridiculous" stage now. Can I get access to the "Metaphysically Better" AI? Am sure that, with my feedback, it will become Astrally Supreme. Maybe even Intangibly enhanced.
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Agreed. Of course it's expected to be "materially better", otherwise what's the point of releasing a new version? It's not like ChatGPT is MS Office, with incumbent accounts locked in and money to be made with new versions. This "news" isn't really news.
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Materially better is hype? The only way to hype it less would be to say "marginally better". Maybe you don't know what the phrase means? He's saying it is, in fact, better in some significant measurable way.
And how can something that doesnt exist, it is literally being trained now, be better if they have no clue until they can test it.
I have some farts in a jar from Sam Altman to sell you.
Re:"Materially better" (Score:5, Insightful)
And how can something that doesn't exist, it is literally being trained now, be better if they have no clue until they can test it.
What makes you think it doesn't exist? The article claims versions of GPT-5 have been demoed to some enterprise customers, so it appears GPT-5 does exist in some beta form. It isn't the version which will eventually be released to the public, but it does exist.
The only thing that doesn't exist yet is the exact version which will be released to the public, apparently this summer.
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Well, sounds like a fake custom-tailored to the "reviewing" moron.
No real change - just hype... (Score:2)
This is just marketing BS and no real change. Don't fall for the hype. It a ridiculous amount of pressure for companies to come up with something ground breaking around AI at the moment.
Re:No real change - just hype... (Score:5, Insightful)
Every version of OpenAI's GPT has been an improvement on the prior version so far. Stating that GPT-5 will be materially better than GPT-4 is reasonable to me. Saying that it will reach human level intelligence would be hype, but just saying it is an improvement is basically just common sense.
The news here is that we may see the next major version of GPT this summer, not that it will be an improvement.
"Materially better" is nearly maximally vague (Score:2)
What he says may well be true, but it appears so vague that there would be no way to disprove it come September.
Generative AI is the Great Satan (Score:1)
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It is better this way. With *everyone* out of work, a replacement for capitalism must be found, and people will now vote for that replacement; demand that replacement.
We've already seen laborers put out of work by globalization and factory robots and they were told to learn to code. Now coding itself is in the crosshairs of automation.
Is OpenAI getting nervous ? (Score:2)
Not only is Altman pre-announcing a new version of GPT, which everyone already assumed is coming, but on a Lex Fridman interview from a day or two ago he is also saying that their current GPT-4 sucks!
He doesn't even have anything that could be considered as good news. I think most people would have expected it by mid-year at the very latest, maybe before. People also expect each new version to be significantly better than the previous one, so saying that it will be "materially" better is saying nothing. Is