OpenAI to Improve GPT-5 with Lessons from GPT-4o Backlash
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Alex Heath
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Summary
OpenAI acknowledges the backlash over discontinuing GPT-4o and plans to improve GPT-5 by incorporating the 'warmth' of GPT-4o while addressing user concerns about predictability and personality changes in AI models.
Key quotes
· 3 pulled"In retrospect, not continuing to offer 4o, at least in the interim, was a miss," Nick Turley, OpenAI’s head of ChatGPT, said on Tuesday.
"It’s not just change that is difficult for folks, it’s also the fact that people can have such a strong feeling about the personality of a model."
"We have to give people some level of predictability when there’s a major change."
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