killah wrote: ↑

August 17th, 2025, 12:09 am

It's evolving at a fast pace that's good

shoopa wrote: ↑

August 15th, 2025, 8:04 am

CNN has a write up on yesterday's launch of CHatGPT-5, and I have one question.


How does a company which has not made a profit get valued at $500 billion?




"New York —

Sam Altman, the artificial intelligence hype master, is in damage-control mode.

OpenAI’s latest version of its vaunted ChatGPT bot was supposed to be “PhD-level” smart. It was supposed to be the next great leap forward for a company that investors have poured billions of dollars into.

Instead, ChatGPT got a flatter, more terse personality that can’t reliably answer basic questions. The resulting public mockery has forced the company to make sweaty apologies while standing by its highfalutin claims about the bot’s capabilities.

In short: It’s a dud.

The misstep on the model, called GPT-5, is notable for a couple of reasons.

1. It highlighted the many existing shortcomings of generative AI that critics were quick to seize on (more on that in a moment, because they were quite funny).


2. It raised serious doubts about OpenAI’s ability to build and market consumer products that human beings are willing to pay for. That should be particularly concerning for investors, given OpenAI, which has never turned a profit, is reportedly worth $500 billion.

Let’s rewind a bit to last Thursday, when OpenAI finally released GPT-5 to the world — about a year behind schedule, according to the Wall Street Journal. Now, one thing this industry is really good at is hype, and on that metric, CEO Sam Altman delivered. "


https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/14/business ... t-problems