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.

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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...
Release Notes: https://openai.com/index/gpt-4-5-syst...
Altman Hype: https://x.com/sama/status/18915338027...
Details: https://openai.com/index/introducing-... https://x.com/OpenAI/status/189521959...
End of an Era: https://x.com/wgussml/status/18951872...
Anthropic Original Claim: https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/06/ant...
Smell: https://x.com/rapha_gl/status/1895213...
Bob McGrew: https://x.com/bobmcgrewai/status/1895...
Deep Research System Card: https://cdn.openai.com/deep-research-...
Reddit:   / gpt45_crushes_simple_bench  
API Pricing: https://openai.com/api/pricing/
LiveStream:    • Introduction to GPT-4.5  
https://simple-bench.com/


Karpathy Comparison: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1895213...
https://x.com/karpathy/status/1895337...


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