Artificial intelligence is moving fast, and faster and faster. Now GPT-5 is coming, probably before the end of the year if we believe the rumors circulating on social networks.
We’ve talked a lot about ChatGPT since last fall, which allows you to have a conversation in a fairly natural language with an artificial intelligence that seems to know everything, and this application originally worked with a speech engine called GPT-3. The fourth generation of this engine, GPT-4, went live just two weeks ago.
GPT-5 could be a very significant upgrade. GPT-4 was already 10 to 1000 times more powerful than GPT-3. And GPT-5 would also be several dozen times more powerful than GPT-4.
When that happens, experts say we could witness the birth of the first real “artificial general intelligence,” called AGI in English. It sounds trite to put it that way, but it is the name of an AI that would be able to flawlessly perform any task that any human can perform.
For example, she would know how to fix a leaky sink, how to bake the best chocolate cake or how to balance your family budget. The only thing that even the general AI can’t do yet is our tax return, and that’s a shame…
Of course, the potential of such AI could also be used for malicious purposes. This is where things start to worry… But it seems it’s not enough to stop OpenAI, the company working on the development of the GPT-5 engine.
The next few months are therefore likely to be quite busy for AI experts.