With the Failed Launch of ChatGPT 5 Some are Now Asking “What If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?”
Sam Altman and OpenAI finally released their long anticipated version 5.0 last week of ChatGPT. So many users complained that they had to quickly restore previous 4.0 versions. Almost everyone now in the financial sectors is referring to the AI bubble, either as something that is going to be no big deal, or something worse. But every once in a while someone says the quiet part out loud: "What if this is as good as its going to get for 'generative AI?'" Oh no, that just simply could not be true, given how much money has been invested in it for claims for what it allegedly will do in the future. That's like saying "high cholesterol does not lead to heart disease." Oh no, that couldn't be true because pharmaceutical companies made $billions telling people it was true and then selling them drugs to make it true. There are just too many "truths" in our society that cannot be true, as it would be too costly and too deadly (like arresting mass murderers). Generative AI is like that a lot. But the problem is you can only fake it for so long before everyone else figures it out too. The latest one to say the quiet part out loud on AI: Cal Newport of the New Yorker.