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On Tuesday, OpenAI threw a party for the release of GPT-5.5 (it was the fifth of May and the fifth month of the year, you see.)<\/p>\n
If celebrating with a bunch of tech bros sounds like the opposite of a good time, you\u2019ll not be swayed from your position by the news that CEO Sam Altman consulted the non-human entity of the hour to plan its own party \u2014 producing, in Altman\u2019s opinion, some \u201cstrange\u201d answers, Business Insider reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n Altman described the interaction a few days ahead of the main occasion during a conversation at the Stripe Sessions conference. The AI responded with \u201ca beautiful set of things,\u201d according to the OpenAI chief, asking for specific favors.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2018Here\u2019s what I want for, like, the flow of the party, here\u2019s what I would not want, y\u2019know you should do it on May 5th, that would be funny,’\u201d Altman said, quoting the chatbot.\u00a0<\/p>\n Altman added that the AI wanted a \u201cshort little toast\u201d given by its human creators, insisting that it not give one itself. It also wanted to receive heaps of suggestions for its successors, GPT-5.6.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re going to do it,\u201d Altman said. \u201cBut it was a strange thing.\u201d<\/p>\n GPT-5.5 is OpenAI\u2019s latest frontier model, and its \u201cstrongest agentic coding model to date,\u201d the company claims<\/a>. It\u2019s also supposed to excel at carrying out multi-step tasks and planning. A leaner version, GPT-5.5 Instant, was rolled out as the default model for ChatGPT on Tuesday. The company says<\/a> the AI comes with \u201csignificant improvements in factuality across the board\u201d and is \u201cmore capable across everyday tasks,\u201d ranging from answering math problems to knowing when to look up answers online.<\/p>\n Altman took its response to being asked to plan its own party as a sign of \u201cweird emergent behavior\u201d in the AI. \u201cThere are these things that feel a little strange,\u201d he added, per BI.<\/p>\n There\u2019s been talk of GPT-5.5 displaying more humanlike quirks, what with its bizarre habit of talking about goblins<\/a> in unrelated discussions. But feigning humanity is exactly what these chatbots have always done, so it\u2019s hard to see what\u2019s so compelling about this latest crop. In the end, it\u2019s probably more a sign of how infatuated Altman is with his own tech.<\/p>\n