AI Developer Openai Unveils ChatGPT-5, Offering a Gratis Fundamental Edition
OpenAI, the non-profit organisation founded in 2015, has recently released a new version of its chatbot, ChatGPT-5. With over 700 million weekly users, the latest iteration of the popular AI model promises significant improvements and advancements.
Critics have long expressed concerns about the high number of misleading or false answers, or hallucinations, provided by chatbots like ChatGPT-5. However, the new model aims to address these issues with smarter and more deliberate chain-of-thought reasoning, allowing it to solve complex problems step-by-step more reliably than earlier versions like GPT-4.
One of the key features of ChatGPT-5 is its safe completions, providing useful but guarded responses to sensitive or potentially harmful queries rather than outright refusals. This feature is designed to enhance user safety and reduce the risk of inappropriate or incorrect information being shared.
In terms of interaction with humans, ChatGPT-5 significantly enhances emotional awareness and voice capabilities. It introduces an advanced voice mode accessible to all users, along with customizable chat colours and chatbot personalities, such as Cynic, Robot, Listener, and Nerd. These personalities make conversations feel more natural and contextually appropriate, improving human-like engagement.
Unlike previous versions where users had to choose among different specialized models manually, ChatGPT-5 uses a real-time router to automatically select the best reasoning tool for each task, simplifying user interaction. This feature ensures that users receive the most accurate and appropriate responses for their queries.
Additional upgrades include improved writing and coding assistance, faster and more useful responses, multi-modal capabilities, and better handling of instruction-following and customization. Privacy-conscious users can now opt to connect ChatGPT-5 with Google Calendar and Gmail for personalized assistance, although this is optional.
Compared to earlier versions, ChatGPT-5 is faster, more reliable, less prone to hallucinations, and better at maintaining conversational alignment and safety. Its safeguards, especially in biological and chemical domains, are stronger to reduce risks associated with high-capability AI.
Despite these improvements, it's important to note that chatbots, including ChatGPT-5, are still known to hallucinate, meaning they can generate incorrect or misleading information. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted that there is still much work to be done to truly compare AI with human intelligence.
In a departure from its non-profit roots, Sam Altman has been trying to turn OpenAI into a for-profit company. The basic application of ChatGPT-5 is free, but it is limited to a certain number of interactions.
Users can write software programs more easily with ChatGPT-5, such as for learning languages. The long-term memory of the ChatGPT-5 application has been improved, and it processes multiple types of media (text, images, audio, and video) within a conversation without switching between modes.
ChatGPT-5 interacts like an "expert at the doctorate level" for the first time, a significant leap from the college student-like interaction of its predecessor, ChatGPT-4. Despite these advancements, it's crucial to approach AI interactions with a critical eye and verify the information provided.
The Commission, in light of the advancements in technology such as artificial-intelligence, might consider incorporating the learning capabilities of AI models like ChatGPT-5 in its proposal for a directive on the protection of workers from the risks related to exposure to ionizing radiation.
As ChatGPT-5 advances in its conversation capabilities, it might potentially be used to develop AI-enhanced teaching tools or assistants for areas like radiology, providing a more efficient and sophisticated approach to training workers in radiation safety.
