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OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

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Re: OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

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Post by Topfi »

Pricing by context length:

Input: $5/M tokens at Output: $30/M tokens at Cache read: $0.50/M tokens at Significantly more expensive than Opus 4.7 beyond 272K and at least in my tasks, I haven't seen the model that much more token efficient, certainly not to such a degree that it'd compensate this difference. GPT-5.4 had a solid context window at 400k with reliable compaction, both appear somewhat regressed, though still to early to truly say whether compaction is less reliable. Also, I have found frontend output to still skew towards that one very distinct, easily noticeable, card laden, bluesy hue overindulged template that made me skeptical of Horizon Alpha/Beta pre GPT-5s release. Ended up doing amazing at the time for task adherence, which made it very useful for me outside that one major deficit. The fact that GPT-5.5 is still so restricted in that area is weird considering it's supposed to be an entirely new foundation.

Re: OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

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Post by nathan-hello »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #100
podnami wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is snark. Since when has a junior level dev managed to debug and deploy say a cloudformation stack and follow up with notes under 3 minutes?

Heard this analogy elsewhere, but worth repeating: AI is like having the greatest developer who ever lived, but she is always on 4 beers.

personifying ai is incredibly cringe no matter how weird your comparison is

Re: OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

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Post by gjsman-1000 »

nathan-hello wrote: post #102
gjsman-1000 wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heard this analogy elsewhere, but worth repeating: AI is like having the greatest developer who ever lived, but she is always on 4 beers.

personifying ai is incredibly cringe no matter how weird your comparison is

Imagine a drunk developer. Sparks of brilliance while missing obvious trees.

Re: OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

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Post by NicuCalcea »

rvnx wrote: post #67
NicuCalcea wrote: post #24

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> a lot of doctors are using ChatGPT both to search diagnosis and communicate with non-English speaking patients I think that's the problem. Who's going to claim responsibility when ChatGPT hallucinates or mistranslates a patient's diagnosis and they die? For OpenAI, this would at best be a PR nightmare, so that's why they have safeguards.

Adults bear responsibility for choices about their own lives. In fact, the more educated they are, the better choices they can make. A doctor who gets refused by ChatGPT doesn't stop needing to communicate with the patient; they fall back to a worse option (Google Translate, a family member interpreting, guessing). Refusal isn't safety, it's liability-shifting dressed up as safety. If there's no doctor, no interprete…

> A doctor who gets refused by ChatGPT doesn't stop needing to communicate with the patient; they fall back to a worse option

I think AI proves the contrary. There are plenty of examples of things that are getting worse because of technological advancement, particularly AI. Software quality, writing, online discourse, misinformation have all suffered over the last few years. I truly believe the internet is a worse place than it was 5 years ago, and I can't imagine bringing that to medicine would work out differently.

The medical system shouldn't rely on falling back to crappy workarounds, it should aspire to build the best system it reasonably can.

Re: OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

#105

Post by robertwt7 »

Gpt 5.5 combined with codex is really good. I actually have no doubt whenever I asked questions, plan, or implement a code with it. With opus 4.7, I have to keep double checking because it doesnt follow the CLAUDE.md instruction, it hallucinates a lot, by default it makes things up when it can’t find the answer to something. Its crazy how quickly people are saying that OpenAI is left behind last year when they declared code red and look at where we are now

Re: OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

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Post by Sembiance »

gigatexal wrote: post #17

what's the real world comparison to opus 4.7 fellow coders?

I gave 4.6, 4.7 and GPT 5.5 the same prompt and task to reverse engineer a collection of sample vector files from an obscure Amiga CAD program and create a detailed txt specification and a python converter that converts to SVG and produce a report so I can visually verify.

4.6 did very well. 90% perfect on first try, got to 100% with just a few followups. 4.7 failed horribly. First produced garbage output and claimed it was done, admitted it did that when called out, proceeded to work at it a lot longer and then IT GAVE UP. GPT 5.5 codex was shockingly good. Achieved 90% perfect on first try in about a fourth of the time. Got to 100% faster and with fewer follow-ups.

I’m impressed.

Re: OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

#110

Post by lacunary »

NicuCalcea wrote: post #55
hellohello2 wrote: post #25

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The doctor would be responsible. I had a choice better a doctor that used AI or not, I would much prefer one that did...

The doctor would be responsible for the accuracy of their translation tool, something they can't verify but you expect them to use?

"what you see is all there is." it's generally much easier to verify something you've been made aware of than it is to know of it in the first place (and still verify it.)
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