GPT 4.5 - not so much wow

GPT 4.5 is here, and do you remember when AI lab CEOs like Sam Altman and Dario Amodei were betting everything on scaling up base models like this one? Well let’s find out what would have happened if the future of AI rested on models like GPT 4.5. You’ll see all the benchmarks, highlights of the paper, emotional intelligence and humor tests, Simple Bench results (reddit was an unreliable source), and why it’s not all bad news for OpenAI. https://www.emergentmind.com/ AI Insiders (now $9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:04 - Details and Benchmarks 03:04 - Emotional intelligence? 08:37 - Creative writing? 11:40 - Visual reasoning and Pricing 12:41 - Simple Performance 16:01 - End of Pretraining Scaling? 17:03 - CEO Hype 18:11 - System Card Highlights 23:32 - Karpathy Reaction GPT 4.5 System card: https://cdn.openai.com/gpt-4-5-system-card-2272025.pdf Release Notes: https://openai.com/index/gpt-4-5-system-card/ Altman Hype: https://x.com/sama/status/1891533802779910471 Details: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-4-5/ https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1895219596317335792 End of an Era: https://x.com/wgussml/status/1895187231666774377 Anthropic Original Claim: https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/06/anthropics-5b-4-year-plan-to-take-on-openai/ Smell: https://x.com/rapha_gl/status/1895213014699385082 Bob McGrew: https://x.com/bobmcgrewai/status/1895228291981943265 Deep Research System Card: https://cdn.openai.com/deep-research-system-card.pdf Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1izu1t7/gpt45_crushes_simple_bench/ API Pricing: https://openai.com/api/pricing/ LiveStream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfRYp0nItZ8&t=1s https://simple-bench.com/ Karpathy Comparison: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1895213020982472863 https://x.com/karpathy/status/1895337579589079434 Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices