If you are fed up with the hype of generative AI, then you are in good company. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sounded off on Monday, telling Lex Fridman in an interview that the most advanced AI model from his company, GPT-4, was “actually kinda sucks.” In fact, Altman is hoping GPT-5 can live up to all the hype.
“I think it kind of sucks,” Altman said when asked about GPT-4 and its most impressive capabilities. “I think it’s incumbent upon us to live a few years into the future, bearing in mind that the tools we have now are really going to kind of suck when you look backward at them, and that’s how we make a better future.
Full Interview is given below-
Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #419 Fridman had just finished praising GPT-4 when Altman hit him with that question. Altman used the question to say how he is way more excited about GPT-5, or whatever the next model is called.
The CEO of OpenAI said his company would release a next version of ChatGPT next year but declined to attach a name to it. “You’re going to see one next year. It’s going to be a similar leap forward that GPT-4 was,” Altman said.
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“Look, I don’t mean to understate the achievement of GPT-4, but I also don’t mean to overstate it,” Altman said. “And that we’re on this exponential curve, we will look back relatively soon at GPT-4 like we look back at GPT-3 now.
Altman said he sees a “glimmer of something amazing” in GPT-4 but noted that most often, its best-case use is as a brainstorming partner. OpenAI’s CEO points out that ChatGPT is minimally useful even for quite complex multi-step problems. When it does work, it’s magic, but those cases are few and far between.
They have been speculating so high about the next model from OpenAI. People keep predicting each and every day about the day GPT-5, GPT 4.5, or GPT-4.5 Turbo will drop. Everybody waits for the AI model that actually makes our life better.
That drew much more interest on the part of people when Bing very mysteriously had cached search results for GPT-4.5 Turbo on the site of OpenAI, even though the company claims it wasn’t them, and there are no releases planned.
One model we do have some slight clarity about is OpenAI’s text-to-video generator, called Sora, said Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati. The model was already teased this past February and it was already one of the most amazing things: to shock the world with realistic videos that could have included some sort of tasteful nudity.
OpenAI is worth eighty billion dollars and is supposedly powered by the “kinda sucks” GPT-4 model, getting it to one hundred million users per week.
