{"id":51526,"date":"2025-08-07T23:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T23:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/51526\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T23:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T23:18:07","slug":"openai-says-latest-chatgpt-upgrade-is-big-step-forward-but-still-cant-do-humans-jobs-chatgpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/51526\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI says latest ChatGPT upgrade is big step forward but still can\u2019t do humans\u2019 jobs | ChatGPT"},"content":{"rendered":"

OpenAI has claimed to have taken a \u201csignificant step\u201d towards artificial general intelligence (AGI) with the launch of its latest upgrade to ChatGPT<\/a>, but has admitted there are still \u201cmany things\u201d missing in its quest to create a system able to do humans\u2019 jobs.<\/p>\n

The startup said its GPT-5 model, the underlying technology that will power its breakthrough AI chatbot, represents a big upgrade on its predecessors in areas such as coding and creative writing \u2013 and is also a lot less sycophantic.<\/p>\n

It said the upgrade was being made available to all of ChatGPT\u2019s 700 million weekly users immediately.<\/p>\n

Sam Altman, OpenAI\u2019s chief executive, called the model a \u201csignificant step forward\u201d to achieving the theoretical state of AGI, which the startup defines as a highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work \u2013 or, in other words, can do their jobs.<\/p>\n

However, Altman admitted GPT-5 had not reached that goal yet. \u201c[It is] missing something quite important, many things quite important,\u201d said Altman, pointing to the model\u2019s inability to \u201ccontinuously learn\u201d.<\/p>\n

Altman said GPT-5 was \u201cgenerally intelligent\u201d and a \u201csignificant step on the path to AGI\u201d but had not reached it yet by most people\u2019s definition.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the way that most of us define AGI, we\u2019re still missing something quite important, many things quite important. But one big one is \u2026 this is not a model that continuously learns as it\u2019s deployed from things it finds, which is something that, to me, feels like it should be part of AGI,\u201d he said, adding that, nonetheless, it was a \u201chuge improvement\u201d on its predecessors.<\/p>\n

During a GPT-5 launch event on Thursday, Altman said this latest version of ChatGPT was like having \u201caccess to a PhD-level expert in your pocket\u201d. He described the previous version of the chatbot as a college student, and the version before that as a high school student.<\/p>\n

AGI\u2019s theoretical capabilities, and the determination of heavily backed tech companies to achieve it, has led to predictions from AI executives that white-collar jobs \u2013 from lawyers to accountants, doctors and bankers \u2013 will be wiped out by looming advances in the technology. Dario Amodei, the boss of AI developer Anthropic, has warned the technology could replace half of all entry-level office jobs<\/a> in the next five years.<\/p>\n

OpenAI said the main improvements in GPT-5 included: fewer factual errors, or hallucinations; better software coding, allowing it to create functional websites and apps; increased capability at creative writing; and, rather than \u201crefusing\u201d a prompt that breaches its guidelines outright, the model will instead try to give the most helpful response possible within safety guidelines, or at least explain why it cannot help.<\/p>\n

The agent feature in ChatGPT \u2013 which carries out tasks such as finding restaurant availability and shopping online \u2013 will also be able to access users\u2019 Gmail, Google calendar and contacts, if given permission.<\/p>\n

As with its predecessors, GPT-5 can generate voice, image and text and can deal with queries in those formats too.<\/p>\n

The company on Thursday demoed how GPT-5 can write hundreds of lines of code in seconds and create tools such as a French-language learning programme. Staff said the technology is also writing less robotically and had the chatbot create a \u201cmore nuanced\u201d eulogy. Altman said ChatGPT was a good tool for healthcare advice too, bringing on stage a woman who had been diagnosed with cancer last year to talk about how the chatbot helped her decide whether or not to get radiation therapy.<\/p>\n

The company said the upgraded ChatGPT would be better at answering health-related questions and would be more proactive at \u201cflagging potential concerns\u201d \u2013 such as serious physical or mental illness, too.<\/p>\n

The startup stressed the chatbot was not a replacement for professional help, amid concerns AI tools could worsen the condition of people vulnerable to psychosis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nick Turley, the head of ChatGPT at OpenAI, said the model showed \u201csignificant improvements on sycophancy\u201d, after the startup\u2019s admission this year that the chatbot\u2019s most sophisticated model had become too agreeable<\/a> and could distress users or make them uncomfortable.<\/p>\n

The latest model release comes as tech firms pour multibillion-dollar sums<\/a> into their attempts to achieve AGI. On Tuesday, Google\u2019s AI unit outlined its latest step towards AGI by showcasing an unreleased \u201cworld model\u201d<\/a>, while last week Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook parent Meta, said the development of superintelligence \u2013 another theoretical state of AI even more powerful than AGI \u2013 was \u201cnow in sight\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Investors\u2019 faith in the potential for further breakthroughs, and AI\u2019s ability to transform modern economies, has also spurred a valuation boom in companies such as San Francisco-based OpenAI. It was reported on Wednesday that OpenAI is in early talks about a sale of shares held by current and former employees that would value it at $500bn<\/a>, overtaking Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX.<\/p>\n

Although OpenAI also released two open models this week<\/a> and has a free version of ChatGPT, the company makes its revenues from charging for subscriptions to the most powerful versions of the chatbot and from integrating its models into businesses\u2019 IT systems. Use of the free version of GPT-5-backed ChatGPT will be capped, while users on the $200-a-month Pro package will get unlimited access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI has claimed to have taken a \u201csignificant step\u201d towards artificial general intelligence (AGI) with the launch of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-51526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}