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OpenAI releases ChatGPT-5 as tech race accelerates

sight. I believe this will be the beginning of a new era for humanity,” Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a recent memo. Altman said there were “orders of magnitude more gains” to come on the path towards AGI. “Obviously... you have to invest in compute (power) at an eye-watering rate to get that, but we intend to keep doing it.” Tech industry rivals Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Elon Musk’s xAI have been pouring billions of dollars into AI since the blockbuster launch of the first version of ChatGPT in late 2022. Chinese startup DeepSeek shook up the AI sector early this year with a model that delivers high performance using less costly chips. ‘PhD-level expert’ With fierce competition around the world over the technology, Altman said ChatGPT-5 led the pack in coding, writing, healthcare and much more. “GPT-3 felt to me like talking to a high school student – ask a question, maybe you get a right answer, maybe you will get something crazy. “GPT-4 felt like you are talking to a college student, GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like talking to a PhD-level expert in any topic,” Altman said. Altman expects the ability to create software programmes on demand – so-called “vibe-coding” – to be a “defining part of the new

ChatGPT-5 era.” In a blog post, British AI expert Simon Willison wrote about getting early access to ChatGPT-5. “My verdict: it is just good at stuff. “It does not feel like a dramatic leap ahead from other (large language models) but it exudes competence – it rarely messes up and frequently impresses me,” Willison wrote. However, Musk wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that his Grok 4 Heavy AI model “was smarter” than ChatGPT-5. Honest AI? ChatGPT-5 was trained to be trustworthy and stick to providing answers as helpful as possible without aiding seemingly harmful missions, according to OpenAI safety research lead Alex Beutel. “We built evaluations to measure the prevalence of deception and trained the model to be honest,” Beutel said. ChatGPT-5 is trained to generate “safe completions”, sticking to high-level information that cannot be used to cause harm, according to Beutel. The company also recently released two new AI models that can be downloaded for free and altered by users, to challenge similar offerings by rivals. The release of “open-weight language models” comes as OpenAI is under pressure to share inner workings of its software in the spirit of its origin as a nonprofit. – AFP

O PENAI released a keenly awaited new generation of its hallmark ChatGPT, touting “significant” advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities as a global race over the technology accelerates. ChatGPT-5 is rolling out free to all users of the AI tool, which is used by nearly 700 million people weekly, OpenAI said in a briefing with journalists. Co-founder and chief executive Sam Altman touted this latest iteration as “clearly a model that is generally intelligent”. Altman cautioned that there is still work to be done to achieve the kind of artificial general intelligence (AGI) that thinks the way people do. “This is not a model that continuously learns as it is deployed from new things it finds, which is something that, to me, feels like it should be part of an AGI. But the level of capability here is a huge improvement,” Altman said. Industry analysts have heralded the arrival of an AI era in which genius computers transform how humans work and play. “As the pace of AI progress accelerates, developing superintelligence is coming into o CEO likens model to ‘PhD-level expert’

The new feature shares locations using an Instagram map. Instagram location sharing option sparks fear

INSTAGRAM users are warning about a new location sharing feature, fearing the hugely popular app could be putting people in danger by revealing their whereabouts without their knowledge. The Meta-owned image sharing platform recently added an option that shares locations using an Instagram map, similar to a feature rival Snapchat has offered since 2017. Some users have since been shocked to discover that their location was being shared, viral posts have shown. “Mine was turned on and my home address was showing for all of my followers to see. Turned it off immediately once I knew but had me feeling absolutely sick about it,” Instagram user Lindsey Bell wrote in reply to a warning posted by Bachelor reality television personality Kelley Flanagan to her 300,000 TikTok followers. In a TikTok video, Flanagan called Instagram’s new location sharing feature “dangerous” and gave step-by-step instructions on how to make sure it is turned off. Instagram chief Adam Mosseri fired off a post on Meta-owned Threads stressing that Instagram location sharing is off by default, meaning users need to opt in for it to be active. “Quick Friend Map clarification, your location will only be shared if you decide to share it, and if you do, it can only be shared with a

limited group of people you choose. To start, location sharing is completely off,” Mosseri wrote. The feature was added as a way for friends to better connect with one another, sharing posts from “cool spots”, Instagram said in a blog post. Users can be selective regarding who they share locations with and can turn it off whenever they wish, according to Instagram. Wariness regarding whether Instagram is watching out for user privacy comes just a week after a federal jury in San Francisco sided with women who accused Meta of exploiting health data gathered by the Flo app, which tracks menstruation and efforts to get pregnant. A jury concluded that Meta used women’s sensitive health data to better target money-making ads, according to law firm Labaton Keller Sucharow, which represented the plaintiffs. Evidence at trial showed Meta was aware it was getting confidential health data from the third-party app, and that some employees appeared to mock the nature of the information, the law firm contended. “This case was about more than just data – it was about dignity, trust and accountability,” lead attorney Carol Villegas said in a blog post. Damages in the suit have yet to be determined. – AFP

OpenAI touts ‘significant’ advancements in its latest AI model, ChatGPT-5.