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by svara 309 days ago
You can't say that with any certainty, but I personally share the impression that growth has not kept up with the hype of 2023. Take the following for example. That's an article from April 2023, that strongly implies that the next version of GPT would be so much more powerful than the current one that it would be dangerous to work on or even release.

Altman specifically used the version number "GPT5" back then. GPT5 is quite good, but is it the kind of technology that requires a word-wide moratorium on its development, lest it make humanity redundant?

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(Friedman) asked Altman for his thoughts on the recently released and widely circulated open letter demanding an AI pause. In response, the OpenAI founder shared some of his critiques. “An earlier version of the letter claimed OpenAI is training GPT-5 right now. We are not, and won’t for some time,” Altman noted. “So in that sense, [the letter] was sort of silly.”

But, GPT-5 or not, Altman’s statement isn’t likely to be particularly reassuring to AI’s critiques, as first pointed out in a report from the Verge. The tech founder followed up his “no GPT-5″ announcement by immediately clarifying that upgrades and updates are in the works for GPT-4. There are ways to increase a technologies’ capacity beyond releasing an official, higher-number version of it.

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(from: https://gizmodo.com/sam-altman-open-ai-chatbot-gpt4-gpt5-185...)