OpenAI unveils GPT-5 claiming PhD level intelligence

OpenAI has taken one step closer to artificial general intelligence (AGI) by introducing its highly-anticipated GPT-5 model on Thursday, August 7, hailing it as a PhD-level intelligence.

OpenAI co-founder and chief executive Sam Altman praised the highly advanced model of ChatGPT as “PhD-level expert in your pocket,” ushering into the new era of AI.

“I think having something like GPT-5 would be pretty much unimaginable at any previous time in human history,” Altman said ahead of Thursday's launch.

The new model possesses high-level abilities in various domains including coding, writing and problem-solving as a proficient assistant.

According to OpenAI, the GPT-5 model exhibits fewer hallucinations, improved coding abilities with more functional abilities to develop applications and websites. Moreover, with enhanced capability for creative writing, it offers the most helpful response with minimum factual errors.

The model also understands Bernoulli’s principle, smashes SWE-bench with 75 percent accuracy, edits multi-language code with impressive precision and drops hallucinations to near-zero when “thinking” mode is on.

Missing parts in GPT-5

Despite showing the high-level upgrade, GPT-5 has not achieved its goal yet, Altman elucidated, “I think the way that most of us define AGI, It is missing something quite important, many things quite important,” demonstrating the model’s inability to fall short on continuously learning.

Growing ethical concerns

The rapid advancements in artificial intelligence has raised the ethical concerns among the AI experts ranging from uncontrolled hallucinations, privacy breaches, and deepfakes to under-the-skin surveillance.

Professor Carissa Veliz of the Institute for Ethics in AI said, “These systems, as impressive as they are, haven’t been able to be really profitable. There is a fear that we need to keep up the hype, or else the bubble might burst, so it might be that it’s mostly marketing.”

According to Gaia Marcus, Director of the Ada Lovelace Institute explained, “As these models become more capable, the need for comprehensive regulation becomes more urgent.”

Hence, the growing gap between AI’s evolving abilities and the urgency for governance will further widen the chasm at the expense of humanity.