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Re:It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word by mppm on Saturday October 05, 2024 @10:58AM (#41750323)
Around the time of the board coup and Sam's 7-trillion media tour, there were multiple, at the time somewhat credible, rumors of major breakthroughs at Open AI -- GPT5, Q*, and possibly another unnamed project with wow-factor. However, almost a year has passed, and OpenAI has only made incremental improvements public.

So my question is: What does the AI rumor mill say about that? Was all that just hype-building, or is OpenAI holding back some major trump card for when they become a for-profit entity?

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Re:It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word by ilrwbwrkhv on Saturday October 05, 2024 @11:01AM (#41750353)
All hype. Remember when the whole "oh we are so scared to release this model" happen back in the day and it was worse than GPT3?

All of these doing the rounds of foreign governments and acting like artificial general intelligence is just around the corner is what got him this fundraising round today. It's all just games.

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Re:It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word by javed6542 on Saturday October 05, 2024 @11:57AM (#41750766)
probably just waiting for the election to be over before releasing the next gen models
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Re:It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word by minimaxir on Saturday October 05, 2024 @03:13PM (#41752187)
Q* turned out to be GPT-o1, which was objectively overhyped.
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