You’ve heard long and hard about GPT-4, but today the world woke up to some totally unexpected news that points to the arrival of a more advanced and, at the same time, dangerous AI. Before the end of this year 2023, society could encounter GPT-5, the first artificial intelligence to reach the AGI state that those who defend a society where the human mind is the most advanced fear so much.
We all know that the technology provided by GPT-4 has been the talk of the day for weeks, but the development of AI is going so fast that it may soon be obsolete. Whether the top minds in the industry like it or not, who have expressed their rejection of the development of AIs as Stephen Hawking did before, the development of GPT-5 is progressing at a good pace and the experts warn of something: it could change the world.
The developer and investor Siqi Chen has generated a stir with one of the latest posts he has made on Twitter, where he assures that he has received a tip indicating that GPT-5 training is scheduled to end in December of this year. year and that OpenAI expects to reach artificial general intelligence (AGI) capability.
Siqi Chen
@blader
i have been told that gpt5 is scheduled to complete training this december and that openai expects it to achieve agi.
which means we will all hotly debate as to whether it actually achieves agi.
which means it will.
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What could happen with the arrival of GPT-5?
This means many things for the AI industry and, at the same time, for the world at large. Society is still trying to get used to what the arrival of GPT-4 has meant, a tool that is already putting a multitude of jobs at risk, so imagining an even more advanced system is worrying and generates a lot of fear. In addition, if a technology like GPT-5 reaches AGI, it will mean that it will be an AI trained to learn to manage any type of idea or perform all types of tasks within the possibilities of humans themselves. If GPT-5 reaches the AGI level, it means that there will be no way to differentiate AI from human behavior. And, from there, who tells us that he will not be able to surpass humans? A further adjustment in the code could change everything in the society that humanity has developed up to now for thousands of years. We could go from watching deepfake videos for fun like we do now to this technology becoming the one that causes serious international conflicts.
In a world where GPT-5 has reached AGI different reactions may occur as a consequence of this. Everything will depend on how this AI is used and the way in which projects are developed around it, but the power it will provide and the possibility of simplifying artificial intelligence processes will be enormous. Just as you can imagine the positive impact it would have on a society that maintained control over AGI AIs, you also contemplate the possibility that something could go wrong and we find ourselves facing an uncertain future. As those trying to curb the development of AI have argued, when technology advances at the rate it is, the gap between science fiction and reality is dangerously narrowed.
Before GPT-5 has to come GPT-4.5
OpenAI has been very transparent about its schedule and it is generally known that the intention of the entity is that we meet the release of GPT-4.5 before the arrival of a new revolutionary version. The release of GPT-4.5 is scheduled, at least for now, for an undetermined time between the months of September and October of this year. What is said is that it will be a bridge version that will make a connection between the AI technology that we are using now with GPT-4 and the one that will be witnessed in the debut of GPT-5. However, if Siqi Chen’s statements are true, perhaps the release of GPT-4.5 will be brought forward with the intention of leaving a longer period of time until the arrival of the next revolutionary version.
It is still too early to tell what the world is in for by the time AI develops to the AGI level. Perhaps it will happen in this same year 2023 and society will face a radical paradigm shift regarding the way of living, working and acting. The great leaders of the world know this and that is why they try to prevent systems like GPT-5 from developing. But, to this day, it is difficult to know what will happen.
