OpenAI announced Monday that it’s releasing a new version of GPT-5 to its AI coding agent, Codex. The company says its new model, called GPT-5-Codex, spends its “thinking” time more dynamically than previous models and could spend anywhere from a few seconds to seven hours on a coding task. As a result, it performs better on agentic coding benchmarks. The …
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OpenAI Acknowledges That Lengthy Conversations With ChatGPT And GPT-5 Might Regrettably Escape AI Guardrails
AI maker are trying to improve their AI safeguards, especially when it comes to handling lengthy conversations versus short chats. getty In today’s column, I examine a persistent issue facing AI makers and users of AI involving how AI guardrails tend to be evaded or overcome when having lengthy conversations with generative AI and large language models (LLMs). This topic …
Read More »This Incredibly Simple Question Causes GPT-5 to Melt Into a Puddle of Pure Confusion
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman keeps heralding GPT-5, the company’s latest large language model (LLM), as approaching to human-level intelligence — but when you actually put it to the test, it often turns out to be strikingly dumb, albeit in a verbose way. Just take a recent experiment conducted by Gary Smith, an economics professor at Pomona College who demonstrated for Mind …
Read More »OpenAI’s GPT-5 Launch Causes Backlash Due to Colder Responses – The New York Times
OpenAI’s GPT-5 Launch Causes Backlash Due to Colder Responses The New York Times Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers Fortune Sam Altman on GPT-6: ‘People want memory’ CNBC The new ChatGPT has some AI fans rethinking when to expect ‘superintelligence’ The Washington Post WIRED Roundup: Why GPT-5 Flopped WIRED …
Read More »WIRED Roundup: Why GPT-5 Flopped
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Read More »Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers
Sam Altman wants to rewire the internet, build brain-computer interfaces, and maybe even buy Google Chrome. He even sees a future where sustaining ChatGPT’s growth means building infrastructure so massive it rivals the world’s largest utilities. But first, he’s cleaning up a mess at the center of his empire: GPT-5. The OpenAI CEO told reporters last week—at a rare, hyper-candid …
Read More »GPT-5 is supposed to be nicer now
OpenAI announced late Friday that it’s updating its latest model to be “warmer and friendlier.” The company recently launched the much-anticipated GPT-5 in a process that CEO Sam Altman admitted was “a little more bumpy than we’d hoped for,” with some users complaining that they preferred the previous model, GPT-4o. OpenAI is trying to address some of those complaints with …
Read More »As People Ridicule GPT-5, Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Need ‘Trillions’ in Infrastructure
People have ridiculed GPT-5, the newest large language model release from OpenAI, since the second it launched, with many users complaining that it’s dumb, boring, and not as good as the last LLM that the company released. Sam Altman, the company’s CEO, has some comforting words for those who may be concerned about the direction his company is headed: AI …
Read More »Is GPT-5 really worse than GPT-4o? Ars puts them to the test.
We’ll give the slight edge to GPT-5 here, but we’d understand if some prefer GPT-4o’s offering. Public figures Prompt: Give me a short biography of Kyle Orland GPT-5 gives a short bio of your humble author. OpenAI / ArsTechnica GPT-5 gives a short bio of your humble author. OpenAI / ArsTechnica GPT-5’s bio, continued. OpenAI / ArsTechnica GPT-5’s bio, continued. …
Read More »Developers Say GPT-5 Is a Mixed Bag
Some developers say they’ve had largely positive experiences with GPT-5 so far. Jenny Wang, an engineer, investor, and creator of the personal styling agent Alta, told WIRED the model appears to be better at completing complex coding tasks in one shot than other models. She compared it to OpenAI’s o3 and 4o, which she uses frequently for code generation and …
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