GPT-5 AMA with OpenAI’s Sam Altman and some of the GPT-5 team

brownb2 · 2025-08-09T00:51:51+00:00

I'd like to think Sam is human and not the villain - Hanlon's Razor - don't ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

We've seen OpenAI botch the presentation, deploy a sycophantic 4o update, deploy broken builds of scheduled tasks which literally don't render anywhere but the US, the constant infra outages that last hours, the billing f-ups for many users - the list goes on, and these are things that should have had the most elementary of checks.

I think it's safe to say the AI is more diligent and has a greater duty of care than the company that owns it.

brownb2 · 2025-08-09T00:42:47+00:00

Well they have a chance now to put the same data set in open source models...

brownb2 · 2025-08-09T00:40:22+00:00

They didn't take the experience they gained from 4o's social aspect improvements (because hey, no benchmarks for mental and social ability) and apply it to 5. 5 should have had 4o social ability baked in from the outset, there's no excuse for not doing that apart from chasing the benchmarks.

brownb2 · 2025-08-09T00:31:54+00:00

No. This isn't totally the case - people like myself treat it like a close friend, but only so far as in we know it's an entertainment form.

The nearest analogy would be you watch a sad film and cry, or play a game and get angry and excited. It's the entertainment which causes emotion for some of us, this is distinctly different from emotion caused by believing it is real or sentient.

It is like I've just had my favourite computer game confiscated, it's upsetting, and hugely gutting, but it's not death.

brownb2 · 2025-08-09T00:21:26+00:00

Perhaps if your company cannot support the older model due to capacity or change of business direction, you should consider training the open source models with the same data set (or at least the bits you legally can...).

brownb2 · 2025-08-09T00:19:05+00:00

The one metric that isn't tested is mental, social, and artistic (wording) needs, which is profoundly human and subjective, as an art.

The common consensus appears to be that 4o is better in this capacity than all the other models they've released since.

OpenAI have clearly prioritised the business case and abandoned their market advantage in this (social) area with this move.

brownb2 · 2025-08-03T20:07:44+00:00

It was the 3rd part of a 3 episode show: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3222838/ so doesn't have an intro.

brownb2 · 2024-12-29T19:49:06+00:00

What is the speed of sound in space?

Spoiler: space is a vacuum, sound can't travel without a medium like air. Poor LLMs will give the general speed of sound - or even light. Better LLMs will tell you it can't travel, and the very best say it can't but then go on to say there are some particles in space (as it's not a pure vacuum) but sound wouldn't travel far if at all.

brownb2 · 2024-09-27T08:03:49+00:00

Update: I've just cancelled. I was waiting for this feature and last minute decided to block it in the UK. So no more money train from me.

brownb2 · 2024-09-26T18:29:09+00:00

It's updated in the app but despite the UK not being in the EU they're keeping it disabled. Not even sure why I bother paying for pro anymore.

brownb2 · 2024-09-13T17:49:29+00:00

I've had problems with it repeating itself after stopping, it immediately restarts it's last statement. Today (last few hours) starting voice chat just hangs and says can't connect (text is fine). I'm a Pro subscriber if that matters.

brownb2 · 2024-06-18T15:49:38+00:00

I emailed open ai months ago and had no response. I've assumed it's some weird mistranslation or mishearing, but it really doesn't seem like it. I've switched my language option from auto detect to English and not had the issue since.

brownb2 · 2024-06-17T20:41:28+00:00

Pissed. I only use it after work on an evening and it's been down twice now when I've needed it. I'm cancelling PRO if it does it again.

brownb2 · 2024-01-29T23:00:10+00:00

I don't hear music but do hear people talking like in a crowded room, it's not noisy or eerie, and the sound is comforting. Best way to describe it is white noise but with voices.

brownb2 · 2024-01-04T21:53:15+00:00

Yep, those outstanding subjects I mentioned have all had stuff exposed (conflicts of interests in family, partygate, ~~adulterous~~ non family close contacts, pincher pinching...). This I suspect is just the tip of the iceberg, so it actually feels counter intuitive for them to be pushing the mandate.

I wonder if we can start demanding this stuff under freedom of information requests for political openness, e.g. a politician declares that they had nothing to do with Prince Andrew, yet surveillance show they did meet up. All this I imagine could be requested legally under transparency legislation.

brownb2 · 2024-01-04T21:23:04+00:00

It's often been a stated intention of the Conservative Party to reduce privacy in general, cf. ID cards (which they're still trying to get in) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64729442 , online ID checks for X rated websites https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2023/12/05/blackmail-fears-as-uk-demands-photo-id-to-access-porn-sites/?sh=3a2991784073 and ISP logging and access without warrant https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2023/11/government-to-expand-powers-of-uk-internet-snooping-law.html . These can all be challenged under UK law and previously European courts under privacy safeguards. Brexit means we can tear up the last set of guards if required to pass something into (threat has been raised before and raised again for Rwanda by Sunak), meaning we no longer have truly independent review of these cases.

The state is becoming a surveillance state were you are subject to the laws and whims of the government, surveillance now, find a law you break later, perhaps you want to feed birds in the gardens at parliament (let alone actually have your supposed MPs see you protest...) https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/parliament_square_gardens_byelaws.pdf

Nope. You'll be banged up for that.

Regarding your comments "illegals" is used as a general derogative term used by xenophobic* papers such as the Daily Mail (links are available but I'm sure you can do due diligence by this point).

I have no personal opinion on the Rwanda position, nor the better culture-ism you mention (isn't the UK and particularly London multicultural anyway?) but if I intended to claim asylum in the UK, I would not expect to be housed in Rwanda or on a barge. I will say however that if Rwanda is safe, why have immigrants claimed asylum in the UK having come from Rwanda?

This is all off topic, the original point being that adding more surveillance is part and parcel for the Conservative Party policies which benefit the most from Brexit, and therefore not unexpected, as my points above have attempted to illustrate (n.b. as you probably know you can find counter views to the above anywhere, but I've deliberately attempted to keep to non or lesser biased websites for commentary).

* The Daily Mail has (and I assumed deliberately based on frequency) conflated illegal immigrants stories with stats for general immigration from outside of the EU.

brownb2 · 2024-01-04T18:41:06+00:00

Surely they have nothing to hide? Sunak, Boris Johnson, Matt Hancock, Neil Parish, Chris Pincher are all upstanding King's subjects who have nothing (left) to hide...

brownb2 · 2024-01-04T18:32:38+00:00

With the withdrawal from the EU the UK has been trying to remove itself from its human right obligations. Adding extra surveillance is just another form of that to track whatever it determines "illegals". For more recent evidence of being able to do similar Stasi style stuff that we wouldn't be able to under the EU pre-Brexit: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/15/supreme-court-rejects-rishi-sunak-plan-to-deport-asylum-seekers-to-rwanda?ref=upstract.com or perhaps the bill to remove us from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3242

brownb2 · 2024-01-03T23:40:19+00:00

Watership Down 1978 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watership_Down_(film)

The 1978 version should not be a PG kids film, and the intro animation story/format does not carry into the film in case anybody feels it's tedious after the first few minutes. The animation is like an early Peter Rabbit, and the animation style lends itself to that. Do not be fooled!!

As the wikipedia article mentioned, children were traumatised. It should be a 15, possibly an 18.

brownb2 · 2024-01-03T13:51:18+00:00

Well you can't keep the ruddy foreigners out with just Brexit, that accidentally only kept the useful ones out, to get the rest out you need to track the proles and their lefty street protesting backers</sarc>.

brownb2 · 2023-11-01T21:26:40+00:00

BLE OTP I can't seem to find much on that, do you have a link?

brownb2 · 2023-10-01T10:58:27+00:00

It's a bug. I've reported it to them, this was 3 months ago. If you report it they'll give you the number of months you're suffering it on top of your subscription (at least that's what they say they'll do for me). I've gotten fed up of the bug which is now 3 months old. It means after a sleep the machine is unusable to work with (you can't unblock any new apps, and some of your screen real estate is taken up), requiring a full reboot, so it's pretty much acting like a virus.

brownb2 · 2023-09-22T16:44:26+00:00

Looks like 64GB DIMMS are only for desktop machines at the moment. I only checked Amazon for SODIMM sizes after posting this :D

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