The jump from GPT-4 to GPT-5 will be brutal, and Sam Altman wants you to know it. The CEO of OpenAI once again referred to his next artificial intelligence model and confirmed that the evolution compared to the current version will be very noticeable.
During an appearance at Stanford University, the entrepreneur highlighted that they are working to improve the performance and accuracy of their large language models (LLM). Tasks that, logically, require an enormous economic investment.
Although Altman did not specify how much it costs OpenAI to develop, train and maintain its language models, he did make it clear that, when the technological leap achieved is large enough, those costs are met without complaints. Thus, he stressed that the performance of GPT-4 on ChatGPT, which in 2023 alone generated an outlay of more than $500 million for the startup, will be “a little embarrassing at best” compared to GPT-4. 5.
But he did not stop there. “GPT-4 is, by far, the dumbest model that any of you have to use again. It’s important to release early and often, and we believe in iterative deployment. “If we develop artificial general intelligence in a basement and the world continues walking happily blindfolded, I don’t think that makes us very good neighbors,” said the OpenAI leader.
The leap towards GPT-5 and the first reference to GPT-6
This is not the first time that Sam Altman talks about the brutal leap that GPT-5 will mark once it reaches users. In March, had said on Lex Fridman’s podcast that GPT-4 and GPT-4 Turbo “sucked”. But not because they were bad, but because the evolution towards more powerful and capable models was still far from its peak.
“I think they’re impressive, but in relation to where we have to go and where I think we’re going to go… you know, at the time of GPT-3 everyone was saying ‘Oh, this is incredible. This is a marvel of technology,’ and “It is. It was. But now we have GPT-4 and you look at GPT-3 and it is unimaginably horrible. I think the difference between GPT-5 and GPT-4 will be the same as the one we had between GPT-4 and GPT-3.” .
Sam Altman, on GPT-4 on Lex Fridman’s podcast.
The concept is now repeated. However, Sam Altman has made it clear that evolution will not stop with GPT-5, and that the concepts he now pours over GPT-4 will likely be reiterated when GPT-6 is on the way.
“This sounds like a evasive answer, but I think the most important thing about GPT-5, or whatever we call it, is that it will be smarter. I think one of the most remarkable facts in human history is that we can stand up and say right now, with a high degree of scientific certainty, that GPT-5 will be much smarter than GPT-4.. And GPT-6 will be much smarter than GPT-5, and we are not even close to the top of this curve,” he remarked.
Without a doubt, the expectation around GPT-5 is very high, and Sam Altman’s words add an extra touch of hype. The businessman has kept his lips sealed about when the new artificial intelligence model could be launched. However, it is rumored that he could arrive after the middle of this year.
A company that already had access to the technology revealed that, according to OpenAI, it would reach the public once the summer began. First impressions of the AI have been positive, it was revealed. The CEO of one of the companies that tested it even described it as “materially better” than GPT-4.
