Unveiling OpenAI's Latest AI Model - The AI Podcast

Summary

The AI Podcast: Unveiling OpenAI's Latest AI Model Release Date: December 7, 2024

1. Introduction to OpenAI's New AI Model

In the latest episode of The AI Podcast, host A delves into the significant announcement from OpenAI regarding their newest AI model. The excitement revolves around whether this release marks the introduction of a completely new model or an enhanced version of ChatGPT with advanced reasoning capabilities.

2. Is It GPT-5 or an Enhanced GPT-4?

A discusses the debate within the AI community about the nature of OpenAI's latest release. Some speculate that the new model, potentially named "Orion" and often referred to as GPT-5, signifies a major leap forward. However, A leans towards the interpretation that OpenAI has upgraded GPT-4 with enhanced reasoning abilities rather than launching an entirely new model.

"I tend to think this is just GPT-4.0 with reasoning capabilities," [02:15] A states, indicating his perspective on the update's significance.

3. Demonstrated Capabilities and Use Cases

A provides a detailed analysis of the model's performance based on his personal testing and user feedback. He highlights specific instances where the new model outperforms its predecessor, particularly in tasks requiring nuanced reasoning and stylistic adherence.

One notable example involves creating LinkedIn posts with specific formatting requirements. While GPT-4 struggled to mimic the desired style, the new model excelled effortlessly.

"I've seen some really phenomenal responses from it so far. I'm quite impressed," [05:30] A remarks, emphasizing the model's improved capabilities.

4. Community Reactions and Social Media Feedback

The podcast delves into the broader community's response to OpenAI's announcement. A references various memes and discussions circulating on platforms like X (formerly Twitter), where users humorously critique the model's inability to solve complex scientific problems immediately after its release.

"Someone said it's been 12 hours since OpenAI announced Orion and it has so far failed to solve the Riemann hypothesis, Quantum gravity, FTL faster than light travel... clearly this shows that AI has hit a wall and OpenAI is about to go bankrupt," [10:45] A quotes a satirical user, highlighting the mixed emotions and high expectations surrounding the new model.

Additionally, A shares intriguing user interactions that showcase the model's reasoning prowess. For instance, a complex puzzle involving logical deduction was solved impressively by the AI within seconds.

"C is playing table tennis with E. This is super smart," [15:20] A comments on the AI's accurate deduction in response to a riddle, underscoring its advanced comprehension and reasoning skills.

5. OpenAI's Path to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

A outlines OpenAI's strategic roadmap towards achieving AGI, breaking it down into five distinct phases. The latest update represents progress into the second phase, which focuses on enhancing human-like reasoning capabilities.

"The next step that OpenAI is working towards now is autonomous agents," [25:10] A explains, expressing his excitement about the forthcoming advancements that will enable AI to execute tasks autonomously, marking a significant milestone in the journey towards AGI.

6. Controversies and Support Challenges

The episode also touches on emerging controversies surrounding the new model. A discusses reports of OpenAI allegedly restricting user access when probing the model's "chain of thought" functionalities.

"Some people are saying that if you ask ChatGPT about Orion's chain of thought a few times, OpenAI support emails you and threatens to revoke your access," [30:00] A relays these claims, although he remains cautious about their veracity.

He further speculates on the implications of such restrictions, pondering whether competitors like Anthropic could potentially replicate or surpass OpenAI's offerings if the safeguards are breached.

"If there's more software and more intensive stuff involved, then I don't think it's probably accurate. But in any case, this is a fascinating time to be in AI," [32:45] A reflects, highlighting the dynamic and competitive landscape of AI development.

7. Conclusion and Future Outlook

Wrapping up the discussion, A reiterates his admiration for OpenAI's latest advancements while acknowledging the challenges and debates they spark within the AI community. He encourages listeners to explore the new model firsthand if they have access and anticipates further enhancements as OpenAI continues its pursuit of AGI.

"This model is amazing. So it's rolled out. If you're a paying user, go jump on it, go test it out, check it out. I've been blown away by what it's able to accomplish," [35:00] A concludes, underscoring his confidence in the model's potential and the exciting developments ahead in the realm of artificial intelligence.

Notable Quotes:

"I tend to think this is just GPT-4.0 with reasoning capabilities." — Host A [02:15]
"I've seen some really phenomenal responses from it so far. I'm quite impressed." — Host A [05:30]
"Someone said it's been 12 hours since OpenAI announced Orion and it has so far failed to solve the Riemann hypothesis..." — Host A [10:45]
"C is playing table tennis with E. This is super smart." — Host A [15:20]
"The next step that OpenAI is working towards now is autonomous agents." — Host A [25:10]
"Some people are saying that if you ask ChatGPT about Orion's chain of thought a few times, OpenAI support emails you and threatens to revoke your access." — Host A [30:00]
"This model is amazing. So it's rolled out. If you're a paying user, go jump on it, go test it out, check it out." — Host A [35:00]

Final Thoughts

This episode of The AI Podcast offers a comprehensive exploration of OpenAI's latest AI model, balancing technical insights with community perspectives. Host A effectively navigates the complexities of the announcement, providing listeners with a clear understanding of the model's capabilities, the debates it incites, and its place within the broader trajectory towards artificial general intelligence. Whether you're an AI enthusiast or a professional in the field, this episode delivers valuable information and thoughtful analysis on one of the most significant developments in artificial intelligence today.

Transcript

A (0:00)

We have massive news out of OpenAI. They have dropped an entirely new AI model. Or some people are saying it's not a model, a new model, it's just chatgpt with new reasoning capabilities. There's some arguments on this, some people are saying it's. It's secretly the Orion AI model that OpenAI has been working on, aka GPT5. I tend to think this is just GPT4.0 with reasoning capabilities. There's a bunch of interesting things here. I'm going to break them all down as well as giving you the responses that people are giving to this, people that are testing at some of the use cases, what this thing's actually good at and breaking all of that down for you in the podcast. Before we get into all of that, I wanted to let you know that if you've ever wanted to start a podcast like this, I'm obviously biased and think that this is probably one of the best things you could do for your career or for your business, because it has helped my businesses and my career out astronomically. But if you've ever been interested in starting a podcast, I've just start. I've just launched a podcast course that starts and walks you through everything from start to finish on how exactly I got over 4 million downloads on my podcasts, how I've raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for my companies with podcasting and how you can do it too. So all of the strategies, the organic growth strategies, all of the production, all of the equipment and all of the amazing guests, how to do it all the link is in the description. So I would love to have you as part of the course and yeah, but let's get into what OpenAI is doing. So the big news here is that there's officially and you can go test this out yourself if you have a paid or Premium account. ChatGPT01 Preview Now Preview probably because they're, they're, you know, they're potentially going to roll it back or change it or make different things to it. They're saying this is only a preview because you only get a certain amount of queries. I think every hour you can only ask it a handful of questions, so you can't do a ton with it yet. I have been testing out and have seen some really phenomenal responses from it so far. So I've been quite impressed. At the same time, I will caveat this by saying I've had some of the developers for some of the companies that I work with say that they still think anthropic Clot is better. Now the whole idea behind this is that it's supposed to be just as good as, you know, an actual person reasoning and what it's doing. It has Strawberry or Q Star involved when you ask it a question. So I'll show you a post I gave it recently. I gave it a post where I said, you know, I'm. I'm writing. I'm writing like a post about a specific story that happened. I gave it like an article all about that story. This is something I was creating for LinkedIn. And then I said, I want you to copy this post. And I found a post that I just liked the style of it but had nothing to do with what I was talking about. But I had this kind of LinkedIn style where it's got like one word on each line, whatever, right? And I was like, okay, like write, write a post with this style about this topic in another case. So I asked ChatGPT4 to do this. It did not do a great job. It just kind of, it kind of did the task, but it didn't copy the style of the original post. When I asked GPT01 Preview to do it, it did a fantastic job. The response it gave me had everything on its own individual line. So the format was correct. I tweaked it slightly by saying, you know, remove some buzzwords, make it less cringy and change the takeaway on this. It rewrote it and it was honestly incredible like this. This post was not something I could get out of GPT4.0 and I always have to go and edit these kind of posts when I get them created by GPT4. So the fact that this can pretty much one shot do this whole thing for me perfect without me needing to edit it really got me quite excited. I think it's. I think there's some great things. Now this is obviously not that impressive of a use case. There's way more impressive and exciting things this is going to, this is able to do. So I'm going to cover some of those. But overall I am, I'm impressed with it. Now the main, I guess downsides to it is that it takes 10 to 15 seconds to respond. But honestly, this thing's saving me five to 20 minutes of post editing after it generates something anyways, so I don't care about. I'll take the 5 to 10 seconds of it know, just take it a little longer to generate the post. So over on X, people have been posting a lot of memes about this. Someone said it's been 12 hours since Open AI announced 01 and it has so far failed to solve the Riemann hypothesis. Quantum gravity, FTL faster than light travel. P equals np. Grand unified theory, Cure for cancer. Clearly this shows that AI has hit a wall and OpenAI is about to go bankrupt. Okay, yes, obviously they're joking because there's all the people that are like saying like, hey, this isn't that cool. It doesn't do like X, Y and Z thing perfectly. This thing is pretty impressive. So someone else was talking about this and if you're watching the video for this, I'm on X right now. This isn't like a specific thread I'm on. This is just literally what my feed looks like because everyone is talking about this. Someone said, I declare AGI achieved. And they shared a mind twister that they got it to do. And I was impressed with this one in particular. It says there are five people, ABCD and E in a room. A is watching tv, B with B, D is sleeping, B is eating a sandwich, E is playing table tennis. Suddenly a call came to the telephone. B went out of the room to pick up a call. What is C doing? So what's interesting is they never, other than saying that C was in the room, they never mentioned what C was doing. But after five seconds, because it tells you how long it takes to think of the response. After five seconds it said, c is playing table tennis with E. This is super smart people are like, how was, you know, how was it able to figure this out? Because it probably wasn't trained on a data set that gave it this answer. C is obviously playing table tennis with E. Because if E's playing table tennis has been playing with someone and no one else was mentioned doing it. So anyways, really interesting response that we got out of it there. Someone else gave an interesting response where they asked it, how many words are in your response to this prompt? Now obviously that's funny because it has to be able to think of how many words are in it before it gives the response and the word the. Anyways, yeah, so it gave this big long thing where it explains how it got the answer. And that's kind of the cool thing that this AI model does is whenever it responds to you, you can hit this little drop down next to the response where it tells you exactly what it does. So it says adjusting the message, adjusting the tone, you know, re editing business dynamics, focusing on human capital. Like, anyways, I'm reading some off of the one the LinkedIn post that I did, but it Literally, like it does chain of thought and it explains the chain of thought that it went through, which is really interesting to me. Right? So it's not just like, okay, black box, here's a response, why your response is better. It explains exactly how it came up with your response. It gives you like seven or eight steps. And so what's interesting to, to me is like, in the one where people are asking it, how many words are in your response to this? It. It's like, it's like when it was thinking and it's thinking. It's like addressing the paradoxical query, figuring out the word count, identifying the word pattern, counting the words, clarifying response accuracy. So it like, it comes up with a response and it makes sure that its response is correct. It's so interesting, it's so fascinating. It breaks down exactly how it does it. And when someone said, how many words are in your response to this prompt? It said, there are seven words in this sentence. And that is true. There are seven words in that sentence. Other people tested the same thing and got a different responses, which is kind of cool. It shows it's not canned. Some people asking the same question, it said two words, which, that's funny because that is accurate. Someone else showed that Grok, Grok 2 beta is able to do the same thing. When someone said, how many words are in response to this prompt? It said, there are 10 words in my response to this prompt, so that's able to do it. And then someone asked Claude the same question and Claude was unable to do it. Now this is interesting because I kind of gave you the anecdotal story at the beginning of some developers I know saying that Claude was still better. I wonder if that's like a bias thing at this point, because they all moved over to that. Either way, I think this is really fascinating. It's, it's amazing because it's literally using chain of thought. It's taking a little bit of extra time, but it's coming up with way better responses. And I've seen people get better ones. You know, we're kind of just getting funny ones. The one thing that's interesting that someone recently asked, they said, did we just get AGI? And Sam Altman said, no. And so, I mean, I think that is to say we're still at the early stages. Opening has got more interesting stuff coming up with us. Coming up for us. There was an interesting post I recently saw where they were talking about the fact that OpenAI kind of has these like steps of where they're going next and right now, like, like what phases to achieve AGI, there's like five steps. The first one was pretty much what ChatGPT was when it first came out. The second one was reasoning like a human being able to understand things. So people are saying, okay, we're now at phase two, phase three, AKA the next step that they're going for is agents, autonomous agents, being able to actually go and execute things autonomously. So for me, I'm really excited because when we see the updates of this technology and what it can do now, we know the next step that OpenAI is working towards now, which is autonomous agents. And I'm sure you know it's going to get a little bit better at responses, maybe a little bit better at reasoning as time goes by. They'll do small tweaks to this, but they've made a pretty big jump. And at this point they're really focusing on agents, which I think is super exciting. I think a lot of you probably think the same thing. Now. One thing that I've heard a couple people report on and I haven't verified if this is actually accurate or not, so it could be a joke, but I'll just tell you because people are talking about it. They said if you ask ChatGPT about O1 about its chain of thought a few times OpenAI support emails you and threatens you to revoke your access of one. So I thought that that was kind of interesting. And someone said that they, they could confirm this and they shared some posts. So I'm not sure how accurate it is, but in the post that they shared, it said your request was flagged as potentially violating our usage policy. Please try again with a different prompt. And then they were also told that they've hit their plus plan limit. And then apparently they got an email that said, hello, we're reaching out to you as a user of OpenAI's chat GPT because some of the requests associated with this email shows their email have been flagged by our system to be in violation of our policy against attempting to circumvent safeguards or safety mitigation in our service. Please halt this activity and ensure you are using the GPT in accordance with our Terms of Service and our Uses Policy. Additional violations of this policy may result in loss of access to GPT4O with reasoning. If you believe this is an error and you would like to appeal, please contact us through our Help center, the Opening I team. Okay, I don't know how accurate that is, but in any case, I think this is I mean, if it's true, that's. That is crazy. And some people are saying that there is no moat. And so if you can figure out how they're doing their reasoning, which makes me think that people think this is. It's sort of like a prompt that's able to essentially understand and tell it to walk through a chain of thought thing. But in any case, if that's the case, there is no moat and someone else could figure that out, like anthropic could figure out what they're doing and get it to essentially run through the same thing. If there's more software and more intensive stuff involved, then I don't think it's probably accurate. But in any case, this is a fascinating time to be in AI. There's so much happening and this model is amazing. So it's rolled out. If you're, if you're a paying user, go jump on it, go test it out, check it out. I've been blown away by what it's able to accomplish. I'll keep you up to date on everything new happening with this model. Hope that you'll have an amazing rest of your day. Don't forget, if you are interested in starting a podcast, there is a link in the show notes to my new podcast course, which if you're interested in podcasting, will blow your mind. Teach you everything you need to know to have a very successful podcast. I would love to have you join me in the podcast community. Anyways, hope you all have an amazing rest of your day and I will catch you next time.