Open AI's release of GPT5 shows a substantial gap between artificial intelligence promises and reality.
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/gpt-5-overdue-overhyped-and-underwhelming
'Altman’s reputation should by now be completely burned. This is a man who joked in September 2023 that “AGI has been achieved internally”, told us in January of this year in his blog that “We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it”. Just two days ago he hold us that as quoted above) interacting with GPT-5 we “like talking to … legitimate PhD level expert in anything”.
In hindsight, that was all bullshit.'
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