OpenAI Progress

Post by dgfitz » Sun, Aug 17, 2025, 1:17 AM UTC

bryant wrote: post #165

willguest wrote: post #156

My go-to for any big release is to have a discussion about self-awareness and dive in to constuctivist notions of agency and self-knowing from a perspective of intelligence that is not limited to human cognitive capacity. I start with a simple question "who are you?". The model then invariably compares itself to humans, saying how it is not like us. I then make the point that, since it is not like us, how can it clai…

> to orient toward the unfolding of possibility in others This is a globally unique phrase, with nothing coming close other than this comment on the indexed web. It's also seemingly an original idea as I haven't heard anyone come close to describing a feeling (love or anything else) quite like this. Food for thought. I'm not brave enough to draw a public conclusion about what this could mean.

Post by andy_ppp » Sun, Aug 17, 2025, 1:20 AM UTC

actuallyalys wrote: post #169

One thing that appears to have been lost between GPT-4 and GPT-5 is that it no longer reminds the user that it's an AI and not a human, let alone a human expert. Maybe those genuinely annoyed people, but it seems like they were potentially useful measure to prevent users from being overly credulous GPT-5 also goes out of its way to suggest new prompts. This seems potentially useful, although potentially dangerous if…

Post by typpilol » Sun, Aug 17, 2025, 1:24 AM UTC

iamgopal wrote: post #65

0xFEE1DEAD wrote: post #63

On one hand, it's super impressive how far we've come in such a short amount of time. On the other hand, this feels like a blatant PR move. GPT-5 is just awful. It's such a downgrade from 4o, it's like it had a lobotomy. - It gets confused easily. I had multiple arguments where it completely missed the point. - Code generation is useless. If code contains multiple dots ("…"), it thinks the code is abbreviated. Go use…

Next logical step is to connect ( or build from ground up ) large AI models to high performance passive slaves ( MCP or internally ) , which gives precise facts, language syntax validation, maths equations runners, may be prolog kind of system, which give it much more power if we train it precisely to use each tool. ( using AI to better articulate my thoughts ) Your comment points toward a fascinating and important d…

Post by benatkin » Sun, Aug 17, 2025, 1:29 AM UTC

actuallyalys wrote: post #169

One thing that appears to have been lost between GPT-4 and GPT-5 is that it no longer reminds the user that it's an AI and not a human, let alone a human expert. Maybe those genuinely annoyed people, but it seems like they were potentially useful measure to prevent users from being overly credulous GPT-5 also goes out of its way to suggest new prompts. This seems potentially useful, although potentially dangerous if…

Post by faitswulff » Sun, Aug 17, 2025, 1:58 AM UTC

stavros wrote: post #141

simianwords wrote: post #7

My interpretation of the progress. 3.5 to 4 was the most major leap. It went from being a party trick to legitimately useful sometimes. It did hallucinate a lot but I was still able to get some use out of it. I wouldn't count on it for most things however. It could answer simple questions and get it right mostly but never one or two levels deep. I clearly remember 4o was also a decent leap - the accuracy increased su…

All the replies are spectacularly wrong, and biased by hindsight. GPT-1 to GPT-2 is where we went from "yes, I've seen Markov chains before, what about them?" to "holy shit this is actually kind of understanding what I'm saying!" Before GPT-2, we had plain old machine learning. After GPT-2, we had "I never thought I would see this in my lifetime or the next two".