Sam Altman looks into the future of ChatGPT. According to Altman, the GPT-4 model is not yet very intelligent, but that will quickly improve with the introduction of GPT-5.

To a newbie in artificial intelligence, GPT-4 looks impressive, but OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sees it completely differently. During a lecture at the prestigious Stanford University in California, Altman took time for a question and answer session about the future of AI and the future of OpenAI. Altman was sharp and unafraid to make big statements.

For example, he openly expressed reservations about GPT-4’s intelligence. “GPT-4 is the dumbest model any of you will ever have to use again. It’s important to deliver early and we believe in iterative implementation. If we build AGI in a basement and the world goes along blindly, I don’t think we’re going to be good neighbors,” Altman reportedly said, according to Tom’s Guide.

Smarter GPT-5

This will improve soon. GPT-5 is in the waiting room and the new generation of LLM could be released in the summer. Altman can confirm “with a high degree of scientific certainty” that GPT-5 will be much smarter than GPT-4, just as he already knows that a possible GPT-6 will be much better.

Altman and OpenAI dream of developing a general artificial intelligence that is as capable of all tasks as the human brain, and with GPT-5 they hope to move one step closer to that goal. This costs the company a lot of money: OpenAI spends about $700,000 a day to keep ChatGPT running, and the total bill last year was $520 million. Altman himself says he doesn’t care about money, even though it almost cost him his job last year.

When OpenAI will make GPT-5 available to the world remains speculation. Accordingly Rumors The company may announce an AI-based search engine for the first time this week, not coincidentally just before Google holds its I/O conference. But these are nothing more than rumors that OpenAI neither confirms nor denies.