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A year after Altman said superintelligence was imminent, GPT-5 is all we get?


The incremental progress of GPT-5 versus the hype should make everyone question the relentless claims of superintelligence.

"But for some users, last Thursday's release felt more like a wrenching downgrade, with the new ChatGPT presenting a diluted personality and making surprisingly dumb mistakes." "LRMs have limitations in exact computation: they fail to use explicit algorithms and reason inconsistently across scales and problems," wrote lead author Parshin Shojaee and team. Similarly, DeepMind researchers Ghengshuai Zhao and team write in a report last week that "chain-of-thought," the string of verbose output produced by the LRMs, "often leads to the perception that they engage in deliberate inferential processes."

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