Sam Altman addresses ‘bumpy’ GPT-5 rollout, bringing 4o again, and the ‘chart crime’ | TechCrunch

Throughout a Reddit ask-me-anything session on Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and key members of the GPT-5 workforce have been peppered with questions in regards to the new mannequin and requests to deliver again its earlier mannequin, GPT-4o.

In addition they requested Altman about essentially the most embarrassing — and maybe funniest — snafu within the presentation, the “chart crime.”

One of many new options that GPT-5 rolled out is a real-time router that decides which mannequin to make use of for a selected immediate, both responding rapidly or taking extra time to “think” by means of solutions.

However a number of individuals within the AMA on the r/ChatGPT Reddit complained GPT-5 wasn’t working as effectively for them as 4o did. Altman stated the rationale GPT-5 appeared “dumber” was the router wasn’t working correctly when it was rolled out Thursday.

“GPT-5 will seem smarter starting today. Yesterday, we had a sev and the autoswitcher was out of commission for a chunk of the day, and the result was GPT-5 seemed way dumber. Also, we are making some interventions to how the decision boundary works that should help you get the right model more often. We will make it more transparent about which model is answering a given query,” Altman promised.

Nonetheless, individuals on the AMA lobbied so exhausting to deliver 4o again for Plus subscribers that Altman promised to not less than look into that. “We are looking into letting Plus users to continue to use 4o. We are trying to gather more data on the tradeoffs,” he wrote.

And Altman additionally promised, “We are going to double rate limits for Plus users as we finish rollout.” This could give individuals an opportunity to play and study the brand new mannequin, undertake it to their use instances with out fear of operating out of month-to-month prompts.

Predictably, he was additionally requested in regards to the wildly inaccurate chart the workforce introduced throughout the reside presentation that rapidly grew to become the butt of many “chart crime” jokes. The chart introduced a decrease benchmark rating with a a lot taller bar. 

Altman didn’t reply questions in regards to the chart throughout the AMA, however on Thursday he did name the chart a “mega chart screwup” on X. Others famous the charts within the printed weblog put up have been right.

However the harm was accomplished. Jokes ensued about utilizing GPT for charts in a company presentation. GPT-5 reviewer Simon Willison, who had early entry and usually preferred the mannequin’s efficiency, additionally identified that turning information right into a desk was “good example of a GPT-5 failure.”

In any case, Altman promised fixes to the objects that appeared to concern individuals essentially the most. He ended the AMA with a promise: “We will continue to work to get things stable and will keep listening to feedback.”