Thereās been a bit of fallout from the launch of GPT-5 this week with users complaining about the sudden deprecation of GPT-4o, the real-time router not working well, and GPT-5ās formal tone of voice. All things OpenAI have quickly fixed, but itās always interesting to see what users are vocal about following a big new model launch as it tells you what they really care about. Users had become very attached to GPT-4o!
The Blueprintās Generative AI Explorer is now updated with all the recent new model launches and feature releases. You can compare models to each other and see all the benchmark scores that are publicly available to find the best model for your use case. Itās also a great way of tracking progress of each of the major AI companies and exploring the products and features that they offer.
There were also some quality of life updates to Claude this week and an interesting update from Figure AI showing the progress theyāve made with the dexterity of their humanoid robotics platform.
In an interview with The Verge Sam Altman gave a great sound bite about how theyāll soon be the third largest digital platform in the world. In other Web 4.0 news thereās a long interview with the Head of ChatGPT, Nick Turley, whoās not convinced about taking advertising, but doesnāt completely rule it out.
In Ethics News it was reported that Metaās chatbots were allowed to have romantic conversations with children and Sam Altman believes AI is in a bubble right now.
GPT-5 launch fallout
There has been lots of reactions to the launch of GPT-5 last week with complaints from users about the sudden deprecation of GPT-4o, issues with the model picker being taken away, and users not happy with GPT-5ās formal tone of voice. With every big new model release from OpenAI I suspect we will always see bumps going forwards - users have become very attached to the model they use in ChatGPT!
Thereās a good interview with Sam Altman from The Verge about the challenges with GPT-5ās launch that gives a summary of all the user feedback, and OpenAIās response. I think they realise that suddenly deprecating GPT-4o was a bad, and strange thing to do and so removing older models without any notice wonāt be happening again.
ChatGPTās model picker is back, which I think is more of an admission that the real-time router that they launched with GPT-5 just isnāt good enough. The idea is right, and Iām sure it will get better over time (especially as according to the GPT-5 system card itās ācontinuously trainedā). But for now it doesnāt work well enough. In my own testing its difficult to tell how much of a problem it is (as you canāt tell where your question is being routed to), but Iāve definitely been getting responses that arenāt factually correct, which is likely down to being routed to the āminimalā GPT-5 model. The āmediumā model wouldnāt make those kinds of basic mistakes, especially as OpenAI claim to have reduced hallucinations with GPT-5 by 80%.
Sam Altman also updated on Friday that GPT-5 will soon be āwarmerā and that theyāre working on allowing users to personalise their experience more, something I wrote about previously in my Beyond Chatbots series. One thing I hadnāt considered in my piece was the challenge of people becoming overly attached to their personalised AI model, which its great to hear is something OpenAI are considering.
There are lots of learnings with every major model launch, and I think OpenAI, with the exception of the sudden deprecation of GPT-4o, have made all the right decisions. GPT-5 is still a great model and a big step forwards, its just having a few teething problems!
Pick up where you left off with Claude
Claude has had some nice quality of life improvements made to it over the last week. It can now remember your past conversations and it can also now handle longer prompts.
Remembering past conversations isnāt like ChatGPTās memory features - it will only reference them when you ask it to and itās not a persistent profile that you can manage. The content window is now a whopping 1m tokens, up from 200k tokens, meaning Claude can now take in an entire codebase, or the entire Lord of The Rings trilogy. Thatās a ridiculous amount of context!
Latest update from Figure AI
Figure AI have made some more progress with the dexterity of their Figure 02 humanoid robot as you can see in the video above. Itās still not great at sorting laundry by human standards - it does a slow, but decent job. Remember that this is the worse it will ever be though, so I expect these robotics platforms will be very capable compared to humans when it comes to dexterous jobs in a couple of years.
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