At the recent World Government Summit (WGS 2024) in Dubai, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that ChatGPT is poised for a significant upgrade with a new iteration, conveniently called ChatGPT-5. Moreover, Altman hinted that ChatGPT-5 would receive massive updates to its speech, images, and video capabilities.
During a plenary session discussion with the United Arab Emirates Minister of AI, Omar Sultan Al Olama, Altman stated: “I was sort of laughing a little bit because this is going to sound like an annoying answer. But I think that the crucial part is that it’s going to be smarter. For example, we can talk about all these other things, like improved task performance to enhanced speed and multimodal capabilities. It will be better at these kinds of tasks. It will be multimodal and faster.”
Altman further elaborated: “And the thing that I think is most exciting is it’s not like ChatGPT-5 is going to get a little better at this task and not better elsewhere. It’s because we’re going to make the model smarter, and it’s going to be better. Everything across the board.”
When Can We Expect ChatGPT-5 and What Features Can We Expect?
While Altman suggested that ChatGPT-5 is already under development, he did not reveal a specific date for the official release. However, considering he mentioned to the Financial Times in November last year that his team were already working on the large language model, we can expect the model to arrive by 2025. For context, despite the quick release of GPT-4 following ChatGPT, it underwent more than two years of training, development, and testing. Should ChatGPT-5 follow a similar timeline, its arrival might be sometime in 2025.
Moving forward from unconfirmed speculations, Altman disclosed that ChatGPT-5 will receive enhancements to utilise personal data, including understanding emails, calendar details, appointment scheduling preferences, and integrating with external data sources.
He explained: “Right now, GPT-4 can reason only in extremely limited ways, and its reliability is also limited.” Hence, ChatGPT-5 will use more data to train on improving its current functionality. Altman also promised: “People want very different things out of ChatGPT-4; different styles, different sets of assumptions – we’ll make all that possible.”
Will ChatGPT-5 Be Free?
Considering the upgrades and the potential to redefine the very essence of artificial cognition in ChatGPT-5, it is likely that ChatGPT-5 will require a subscription like its predecessor. Furthermore, it’s important to remember that current language models are already expensive to train and maintain. Thus, when GPT-5 is eventually released, access to it will likely require a fee similar to ChatGPT Plus or Copilot Pro.
However, on the bright side, it could mean ChatGPT-4 becomes more affordable and accessible. Since the requirement of fees, the popularity of the AI chatbot has nosedived , with people seeking alternatives such as Caktus AI or Novel AI for specific tasks. Therefore, when GPT-5 releases, ChatGPT-4 could be widely accessible, and people could enjoy its in-house AI image model DALL·E and many other locked functions currently locked behind a paid wall.
ChatGPT-4 Is Testing a New Memory Function
Speaking of ChatGPT-4, Sam Altman also revealed that they will roll out memory for ChatGPT, a feature that allows the bot to remember information about you and your conversations over time. For example, the next time you tell ChatGPT that you’re allergic to avocados or prefer all meeting notes in bullet points, the chatbot might be able to remember those details indefinitely.
Furthermore, each custom GPT you use will have its own memory, too. For instance, when you use the Books GPT with memory turned on, it can automatically remember which books you’ve already read and which genres you like best. However, there is one massive downside. For example, the lack of privacy has caused users discomfort, as many users are already wary of having their questions hoovered up by OpenAI and fed back into the system as training data to help personalise the bot even further.
In response, Altman stated that they are keeping users in control of ChatGPT’s memory and have trained the system not to remember sensitive things like information about your health. In addition, OpenAI is looking at a potential Temporary Chat as a sort of incognito mode to prevent the chatbot from remembering your conversations.
Nevertheless, OpenAI will initially make the features available to hundreds of thousands of free and paid ChatGPT users, with plans to review feedback before rolling it out more widely. In many ways, memory is a feature ChatGPT desperately needs, and it will be interesting to see whether memory is a hit or a bust.
Sam Altman Highlights Societal Misalignments As a Danger to AI
Besides the benefits Altman stated AI could bring, he mentioned that AI is still a delicate field and “very subtle societal misalignments” could wreak havoc on the system. He elaborated: “There’s some things in there that are easy to imagine where things really go wrong. And I’m not that interested in the killer robots walking in the street direction of things going wrong. I’m much more interested in the very subtle societal misalignments where we just have these systems out in society, and through no particular ill intention, things just go horribly wrong.”
Moreover, he highlighted the need for a body like the International Atomic Energy Agency to oversee AI progression. However, he also stressed that the AI industry, like OpenAI, shouldn’t be in the driver’s seat when making regulations governing the industry.
He explained: “We’re still in the stage of a lot of discussion. So there’s, you know, everybody in the world is having a conference. Everyone’s got an idea, a policy paper, and that’s ok. I think we’re still at a time where debate is needed and healthy, but at some point in the next few years, we have to move towards an action plan with real buy-in around the world. So give us some time. But I will say, I think in a few more years it’ll be much better than it is now. And in a decade, it should be pretty remarkable.”
Thus, with AI bots getting cleverer and the potential release of CharGPT-5 in a year, a governing body regarding AI must come to fruition, as AI will inevitably be part of our future. As everyone knows, a baby in infancy is most integral for its growth. For more information regarding tech and AI topics, follow our Facebook and Twitter social media pages for the latest coverage.
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