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OpenAI and Sam Altman have predominantly remained tight-lipped about GPT-4’s successorGPT-5.

The executive asked the audience, “How many people feel they are smarter than GPT 4?”

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025.

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Interestingly, fewer people raised their hands.

The executive claims that the model could be smarter than him.

Sam Altman on GPT-5 in Berlin today How many of you think you will still be smarter than GPT-5 ?

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And you know like we want more science to get done.

We want more, we want to enable researchers to do things they couldnt do before.

This is the history of, this is like the long history of humanity.

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This isn’t the first time OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has talked about GPT-5 and next-gen capabilities.

Sam Altman admittedGPT-4 “kind of sucks"and that it’s “mildly embarrassing at best.

It’s important to ship early and often and we believe in iterative deployment.”

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In the grand scheme of things, GPT-5 promises to bring better performance and accuracy to ChatGPT.

It’ll be interesting to see if GPT-5 tips the scale back in OpenAI’s favor.

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