“PHD-LEVEL EXPERT”
With fierce competition around the world over the technology, Altman said ChatGPT-5 led the pack in coding, writing, health care and much more.
“GPT-3 felt to me like talking to a high school student – ask a question, maybe you get a right answer, maybe you’ll get something crazy,” Altman said.
“GPT-4 felt like you’re talking to a college student; GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like talking to a PhD-level expert in any topic.”
Altman expects the ability to create software programs on demand – so-called “vibe-coding” – to be a “defining part of the new ChatGPT-5 era”.
In a blog post, British AI expert Simon Willison wrote about getting early access to ChatGPT-5.
“My verdict: it’s just good at stuff,” Willison wrote.
“It doesn’t feel like a dramatic leap ahead from other (large language models) but it exudes competence – it rarely messes up, and frequently impresses me.”
However, Musk wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that his Grok 4 Heavy AI model “was smarter” than ChatGPT-5.
HONEST AI?
ChatGPT-5 was trained to be trustworthy and stick to providing answers as helpful as possible without aiding seemingly harmful missions, according to OpenAI safety research lead Alex Beutel.
“We built evaluations to measure the prevalence of deception and trained the model to be honest,” Beutel said.
ChatGPT-5 is trained to generate “safe completions”, sticking to high-level information that can’t be used to cause harm, according to Beutel.
The company this week also released two new AI models that can be downloaded for free and altered by users, to challenge similar offerings by rivals.
The release of “open-weight language models” comes as OpenAI is under pressure to share inner workings of its software in the spirit of its origin as a nonprofit.
