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Re: GPT-5

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The marketing copy and the current livestream appear tautological: "it's better because it's better." Not much explanation yet why GPT-5 warrants a major version bump. As usual, the model (and potentially OpenAI as a whole) will depend on output vibe checks.

We’re at the audiophile stage of LLMs where people are talking about the improved soundstage, tonality, reduced sibilance etc

Informed audiophiles rely on Klippel output now

Re: GPT-5

#232

Watching the livestream now, the improvement over their current models on the benchmarks is very small. I know they seemed to be trying to temper our expectations leading up to this, but this is much less improvement than I was expecting

Sam said maybe two years ago that they want to avoid "mic drop" releases, and instead want to stick to incremental steps.

This is day one, so there is probably another 10-20% in optimizations that can be squeezed out of it in the coming months.

Re: GPT-5

#233

‘Twas the night before GPT-5, when all through the social-media-sphere, Not a creature was posting, not even @paulg nor @eshear Next morning’s posts were prepped and scheduled with care, In hopes that AGI soon would appear …

Unless someone figures how to make these models a million(?) times more efficient or feed them a million times more energy I don’t see how AGI would even be a twinkle in the eye of the LLM strategies we have now.

Re: GPT-5

#234

Did they just say they're deprecating all of OpenAI's non-GPT-5 models?

Yup! Nice play to get a picture of every API user's legal ID - deprecating all models that aren't locked behind submitting one. And yep, GPT-5 does require this.

Re: GPT-5

#236
This health segment is completely wild. Seeing Sam fully co-sign the replacement of medical advice with ChatGPT in such a direct manner would have been unheard of two years ago. Waiting for GPT-6 to include a segment on replacing management consultants.

Re: GPT-5

#237

ChatGPT5 in this demo: > For an airplane wing (airfoil), the top surface is curved and the bottom is flatter. When the wing moves forward: > * Air over the top has to travel farther in the same amount of time -> it moves faster -> pressure on the top decreases. > * Air underneath moves slower -> pressure underneath is higher > * The presure difference creates an upward force - lift Isn't that explanation of why wings…

Yes. But I strongly suspect that it's the most frequent answer in the training data...

Re: GPT-5

#238

Watching the livestream now, the improvement over their current models on the benchmarks is very small. I know they seemed to be trying to temper our expectations leading up to this, but this is much less improvement than I was expecting

I mean that's just the consequence of releasing a new model every couple months. If Open AI stayed mostly silent since the GPT-4 release (like they did for most iterations) and only now released 5 then nobody would be complaining about weak gains in benchmarks.

If everyone else had stayed silent as well, then I would agree. But as it is right now they are juuust about managing to match the current pace of the other contenders. Which actually is fine, but they have previously set quite high expectations. So some will probably be disappointed at this.

Re: GPT-5

#239
Wow, what a breakthrough! A couple of % of benchmark improvements at a couple of % decrease of price per token!

With a couple of more trillions from investors in his company, Sama can really keep launching successful, groundbreaking and innovative products like:

- Study Mode (a pre-prompt that you can craft yourself): https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-study-mode/

- Office Suite (because nothing screams AGI like an office suite: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4021949/openai-goes-fo...)

- ChatGPT5 (ChatGPT4 with tweaks) https://openai.com/gpt-5/

I can almost smell the singularity behind the corner, just a couple of trillion more! Please investors!

Re: GPT-5

#240

The introduction said to try the following prompt Describe me based on all our chats — make it catchy! It was flattering as all get out, but fairly accurate (IMHO) Mike Warot: The Tinkerer of Tomorrow A hardware hacker with a poet’s soul, Mike blends old-school radio wisdom with cutting-edge curiosity. Whether he's decoding atomic clocks, reinventing FPGA logic with BitGrid, or pondering the electromagnetic vector po…

I like how this sounds exactly like a selectable videogame hero:

Undeterred by even the most dangerous and threatening of obstacles, Teemo scouts the world with boundless enthusiasm and a cheerful spirit. A yordle with an unwavering sense of morality, he takes pride in following the Bandle Scout's Code, sometimes with such eagerness that he is unaware of the broader consequences of his actions. Though some say the existence of the Scouts is questionable, one thing is for certain: Teemo's conviction is nothing to be trifled with.

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