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

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

In addition they requested Altman about probably 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 specific immediate, both responding rapidly or taking further time to “suppose” via solutions.

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

“GPT-5 will appear smarter beginning in the present day. Yesterday, we had a sev and the autoswitcher was out of fee for a piece of the day, and the consequence was GPT-5 appeared method dumber. Additionally, we’re making some interventions to how the choice boundary works that ought to enable you get the appropriate mannequin extra usually. We are going to make it extra clear about which mannequin is answering a given question,” Altman promised.

Nonetheless, folks on the AMA lobbied so onerous to carry 4o again for Plus subscribers that Altman promised to at the least look into that. “We’re trying into letting Plus customers to proceed to make use of 4o. We are attempting to assemble extra information on the tradeoffs,” he wrote.

And Altman additionally promised, “We’re going to double price limits for Plus customers as we end rollout.” This could give folks an opportunity to play and study the brand new mannequin, undertake it to their use instances with out fear of working out of month-to-month prompts.

Predictably, he was additionally requested in regards to the wildly inaccurate chart the staff introduced through the dwell presentation that rapidly turned 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 through the AMA, however on Thursday he did name the chart a “mega chart screwup” on X. Others famous the charts within the revealed weblog submit had been appropriate.

However the harm was carried out. 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 instance of a GPT-5 failure.”

In any case, Altman promised fixes to the objects that appeared to concern folks probably the most. He ended the AMA with a promise that “We are going to proceed to work to get issues steady and can maintain listening to suggestions.”