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Why GPT-5's rocky rollout is the reality check we needed on superintelligence hype


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

"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, Arizona State University 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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