Think like a human, or at least respond as an expert who came out of a PhD and ready to solve increasingly complex problems. It took only 32 months to reach such a complex artificial level of artificial intelligence, from the debut of chatgpt to version number 5, released yesterday by Open Ai. An impressive speed that has now archived the law of Moore (i.e. the one for which the processors would have doubled their performances every year) and which brings us to a new era, it is not yet known if of well -being or danger. More really perhaps both than both. But, in any case, the exit of GPT-5, is the signal that should convince us that the IA now, in addition to being a tool for daily use, should become a subject of study, at school. Before ignorance on the subject can overwhelm us.
This is because Sam Altman, the now famous CEO of Open Ai, defined the difference with the previous version not only as “an important step towards general artificial intelligence (i.e. agi) but also as if an old phone with a pixelated screen was used after an iPhone: the difference, in short, is abysmal. And therefore precisely:” If GPT-3 could be compared to a high school student and GPT-4 to a university student, GPT An expert with a PhD ”. This is therefore why it is better to know how to use it.
Accessibility: immediately for everyone
GPT-5 is already available for all chatgpt users, including those with free account: it is the first time that a model of this level is also accessible to free users. There are three versions-GPT-5, GPT-5 Mini and GPT-5 nano-to balance performance and costs. The Pro versions (with unlimited access to $ 200) and Plus (21 dollars per month) offer much more generous use limits than the free version, which in any case allows access to both GPT-5 and GPT-5 Mini. In the case of Plus subscriptions, GPT-5 becomes the default model, simplifying the user experience and guaranteeing higher use thresholds.
What changes compared to GPT-4?
GPT-5 represents a technological milestone, integrating the abilities of the reasoning models and intelligent agents. It works as a “uniform” of the Openai range, offering greater universality of use both in personal work and in companies.
The most obvious news
Speed and precision: GPT-5 responds more quickly and with less hallucinations, guaranteeing greater reliability in critical sectors such as health, science, finance and law.
Advanced reasoning capacity: can manage more complex questions and ambiguous contexts, thanks also to a new methodology of “Safe Completions” which responds in a useful way without compromising safety or transparency. Improvement in programming: it is the best model of Openai for coding. It can generate, optimize and debut complex software from scratch, allowing the creation of websites, apps and entire services with a single prompt. According to Altman, the era of the “software on demand” is a turning point brought by GPT-5.
Multimodality enhanced: GPT-5 enriches the ability to work with text, images, audio and video, with a contextual window enlarged up to 300,000 token (against 128,000 of GPT-4) and much larger training dataset (40-100 Token trillion).
Safety, reliability and development philosophy
The focus on safety and reliability is maximum: the “Safe Completions” system significantly reduces cases of inappropriate or potentially harmful responses. Experts evaluate GPT-5 as extremely effective, collaborative and transparent in its responses, with excellent performance in health, science, mathematics and-above all-coding. However, Altman himself admitted that the power achieved also arouses a certain fear: “I tried a sense of nervousness during the test sessions,” he said, comparing the experience to the Manhattan project. Another peculiarity: of the GPT-5 he cannot answer, he admits it: this serves to avoid errors and to take on new knowledge directly from the user.
GPT-5 in summary
These therefore the characteristics:
Smarter, fast, precise and human
Available for free and payment users (Plus and Pro)
Three API versions: Full, Mini, Nano (balance between costs and performance)
Excellence in Coding: software on request and advanced debugging
Greater safety and transparency in responses
Expanded multimodality: text, images, audio, video, longer contexts
In practice: GPT-5 is not only the evolution of a family of models, but marks the advent of a new generation of IA with ambitions that go far beyond the simple “intelligent response”.
We are faced with a technology capable of radically changing the way we work, create and learn, and perhaps also our own relationship with knowledge. For this, given Altman’s nervousness, it would be good to immediately get to work to make sure to get to know him well. And to make him a friend.