OPENAI co-founder Sam Altman has dropped hints about an updated version of ChatGPT, promising a "significant leap forward."
ChatGPT is regarded as one of the most advanced AI chatbots in existence. It uses natural language processing to mimic the flow of a human conversation.
Updates to the virtual assistant are constantly rolling out, with the latest model boasting advanced voice and vision capabilities.
These endless developments have propelled OpenAI to prominence, and some fans credit the company with sparking widespread interest in artificial intelligence.
Altman appeared at the Aspen Ideas Festival last week, where he teased the company's forthcoming language model, aptly named GPT-5.
"I expect it to be a significant leap forward," Altman said.
"A lot of the things that GPT-4 gets wrong, you know, can't do much in the way of reasoning, sometimes just sort of totally goes off the rails and makes a dumb mistake, like even a six-year-old would never make."
Such complaints have been noted by users. Gripes include persistent network errors, responses with nonsensical directions, and issues delivering mathematical proofs.
Altman himself acknowledged that there is more work to be done.
"We don't know yet. We are optimistic, but we still have a lot of work to do on it," he said.
The OpenAI CEO previously teased GPT-5 in a January 2024 interview with Bill Gates but fell short of providing a timeline for its release.
Industry experts anticipate the technology to launch in mid-2024, possibly as soon as this summer.
The company unveiled GPT-4o, its latest flagship model, in May. GPT-4o was touted as a highly intelligent chatbot much faster than its predecessors.
Users can speak with the model and receive vocal responses, or share files with the model for assistance with writing or analysis.
OpenAI even claimed GPT-4o was "much better than any existing model at understanding and discussing the images you share."
The model set "new high watermarks" on multilingual, audio, and vision capabilities, according to the company.
Despite attracting a loyal fanbase, OpenAI has come under fire in recent years over allegations of copyright infringement.
Altman took time to address this during last week's appearance, noting agreements struck with major publishers to license news content for ChatGPT in exchange for training data.
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The company is also beginning to come to terms with its mistakes. Last week, OpenAI announced that it had trained a model called CriticGPT to catch errors in ChatGPT's code output.
"We found that when people get help from CriticGPT to review ChatGPT code they outperform those without help 60% of the time," the company wrote in a press release.
ChatGPT is a new artificial intelligence tool
ChatGPT, which was launched in November 2022, was created by San Francisco-based startup OpenAI, an AI research firm.
It’s part of a new generation of AI systems.
ChatGPT is a language model that can produce text.
It can converse, generate readable text on demand and produce images and video based on what has been learned from a vast database of digital books, online writings and other media.
ChatGPT essentially works like a written dialogue between the AI system and the person asking it questions
GPT stands for Generative Pre-Trained Transformer and describes the type of model that can create AI-generated content.
If you prompt it, for example ask it to “write a short poem about flowers,” it will create a chunk of text based on that request.
ChatGPT can also hold conversations and even learn from things you’ve said.
It can handle very complicated prompts and is even being used by businesses to help with work.
But note that it might not always tell you the truth.
“ChatGPT is incredibly limited, but good enough at some things to create a misleading impression of greatness,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in 2022.
