Sam Altman Addresses ‘bumpy’ Gpt-5 Rollout, Bringing 4o Back, And The ‘chart Crime’

During a Reddit ask-me-anything convention connected Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and cardinal members of nan GPT-5 squad were peppered pinch questions astir nan caller model, notably why it was moving truthful poorly, particularly nan automatic exemplary switching.

The squad was besides flooded pinch requests to bring backmost its erstwhile model, GPT-4o. And Altman was asked astir nan astir embarrassing – and possibly funniest – snafu successful nan presentation, nan “chart crime.”

One of nan caller features that GPT-5 rolled retired is a real-time router that decides which exemplary to usage for a peculiar prompt, either responding quickly aliases taking further clip to “think” done answers.

But aggregate group successful nan AMA connected nan r/ChatGPT Reddit complained GPT-5 wasn’t moving arsenic good for them arsenic 4o did. Altman said nan logic GPT-5 seemed “dumber” was nan router wasn’t moving decently erstwhile it was rolled retired Thursday.

“GPT-5 will look smarter starting today. Yesterday, we had a sev and nan autoswitcher was retired of committee for a chunk of nan day, and nan consequence was GPT-5 seemed measurement dumber. Also, we are making immoderate interventions to really nan determination bound useful that should thief you get nan correct exemplary much often. We will make it much transparent astir which exemplary is answering a fixed query,” Altman promised.

Still, group connected nan AMA lobbied truthful difficult to bring 4o backmost for Plus subscribers that Altman promised to astatine slightest look into that. “We are looking into letting Plus users to proceed to usage 4o. We are trying to stitchery much information connected nan tradeoffs,” he wrote.

And Altman besides promised, “We are going to double complaint limits for Plus users arsenic we decorativeness rollout.” This should springiness group a chance to play and study nan caller model, adopt to their usage cases without interest of moving retired of monthly prompts.

Predictably, he was besides asked astir nan wildly inaccurate floor plan nan squad presented during nan unrecorded position that quickly became nan butt of galore “chart crime” jokes. The floor plan presented a little benchmark people pinch a overmuch taller bar. 

OpenAI’s GPT-5 ‘chart crime’Image Credits:OpenAI

Altman didn’t reply questions astir nan floor plan during nan AMA, but connected Thursday he did telephone nan floor plan a “mega floor plan screwup” on X. Others noted nan charts successful nan published blog station were correct.

But nan harm was done. Jokes ensued astir utilizing GPT for charts successful a firm presentation. GPT-5 reviewer Simon Willison, who had early entree and mostly liked nan model’s performance, also pointed retired that turning information into a array was “good illustration of a GPT-5 failure.”

In immoderate case, Altman promised fixes to nan items that seemed to interest group nan most. He ended nan AMA pinch a committedness that “We will proceed to activity to get things unchangeable and will support listening to feedback.”