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Here’s What We Know About GPT-5 So Far (& What We Hope to See)

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Here’s What We Know About GPT-5 So Far (& What We Hope to See)

GPT-5 is coming, but we don’t know exactly when. The highly anticipated generative pre-trained transformer from OpenAI is expected to surpass the current models that you can work with — and that’s saying a lot, considering how advanced GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 are.

“We’re going to make the model smarter; it’s going to be better at everything across the board,” Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said discussing future iterations of GPT at the World Government Summit in January. “This is a bigger deal than it sounds because what makes these models so magical is that they’re general.”

Performance typically scales linearly with data and model size unless there’s a major architectural breakthrough, explains Joe Holmes, Curriculum Developer at Codecademy who specializes in AI and machine learning. “However, I still think even incremental improvements will generate surprising new behavior,” he says.

So, what could a smarter and better GPT really be capable of? Ahead we’ll break down what we know about GPT-5, how it could compare to previous GPT models, and what we hope comes out of this new release.

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A brief timeline of GPT models

June 2018

GPT-1

OpenAI put generative pre-trained language models on the map in 2018, with the release of GPT-1. This groundbreaking model was based on transformers, a specific type of neural network architecture (the “T” in GPT) and trained on a dataset of over 7,000 unique unpublished books. You can learn about transformers and how to work with them in our free course Intro to AI Transformers.

February 2019

GPT-2

In late 2019, OpenAI developed GPT-2, the successor to GPT-1. This large transformer-based language model had 1.5 billion parameters — variables that the model learns from data during training — and was trained on a dataset of 8 million web pages. For context: that’s 10 times the parameters and data as GPT-1 used.

June 2020

GPT-3

With GPT-3, OpenAI upped the number of parameters to 175 billion.

November 2022

GPT-3.5

In November 2022, ChatGPT entered the chat, adding chat functionality and the ability to conduct human-like dialogue to the foundational model. The first iteration of ChatGPT was fine-tuned from GPT-3.5, a model between 3 and 4. If you want to learn more about ChatGPT and prompt engineering best practices, our free course Intro to ChatGPT is a great way to understand how to work with this powerful tool.

March 2023

GPT-4

The latest GPT model came out in March 2023 and is “more reliable, creative, and able to handle much more nuanced instructions than GPT-3.5,” according to the OpenAI blog about the release. In the video below, Greg Brockman, President and Co-Founder of OpenAI, shows how the newest model handles prompts in comparison to GPT-3.5.

TBD

GPT-5

An official release date for GPT-5 hasn’t been announced yet.

What to expect from GPT-5

Even more multimodality

When Bill Gates had Sam Altman on his podcast in January, Sam said that “multimodality” will be an important milestone for GPT in the next five years. In an AI context, multimodality describes an AI model that can receive and generate more than just text, but other types of input like images, speech, and video.

In September 2023, OpenAI announced ChatGPT’s enhanced multimodal capabilities, enabling you to have a verbal conversation with the chatbot, while GPT-4 with Vision can interpret images and respond to questions about them. And in February, OpenAI introduced a text-to-video model called Sora, which is currently not available to the public.

Future GPT upgrades will expand on the modalities that ChatGPT can work with: “Clearly, people really want that,” Sam said on the podcast Unconfuse Me. “We’ve launched images and audio, and it had a much stronger response than we expected.”

Improved “reasoning” and accuracy

AI systems can’t reason, understand, or think — but they can compute, process, and calculate probabilities at a high level that’s convincing enough to seem human-like. And these capabilities will become even more sophisticated with the next GPT models.

“Maybe the most important areas of progress will be around reasoning ability,” Sam said on Unconfuse Me. “Right now, GPT-4 can reason in only extremely limited ways.” GPT-5 will likely be able to solve problems with greater accuracy because it’ll be trained on even more data with the help of more powerful computation.

“Pre-training” is the process where the model learns from training data to generate probability distributions. The more diverse and robust the training data is, the better AI is at generating new content.

One thing to keep an eye on is the context window, Joe says. A token is a chunk of text, usually a little smaller than a word, that’s represented numerically when it’s passed to the model. “It’s basically how the model understands language,” Joe says. Every model has a context window that represents how many tokens it can process at once. GPT-4 Turbo has a context window of 128,000 tokens, while Google’s Gemini 1.5 has a context window of up to 1 million tokens.

“If GPT-5 makes similarly huge context available to the public I think it’ll have profound implications for research, learning, and analysis across a variety of domains,” Joe says. “You’ll be able to paste huge amounts of knowledge into a single question you’re asking the model, saving countless hours and dramatically increasing the productivity of knowledge work.”

But it’s important to remember that these models can inherit limitations from earlier versions. GPT-4, OpenAI’s most advanced system, can confidently produce inaccuracies and lapses in reasoning, and perpetuate social biases. “If you ask GPT-4 most questions 10,000 times, one of those 10,000 is probably pretty good, but it doesn’t always know which one,” Sam said on the podcast. “You’d like to get the best response of 10,000 each time, and so that increase in reliability will be important.”

Customization capabilities

The ability to customize and personalize GPTs for specific tasks or styles is one of the most important areas of improvement, Sam said on Unconfuse Me. Currently, OpenAI allows anyone with ChatGPT Plus or Enterprise to build and explore custom “GPTs” that incorporate instructions, skills, or additional knowledge. Codecademy actually has a custom GPT (formerly known as a “plugin”) that you can use to find specific courses and search for Docs. Take a look at the GPT Store to see the creative GPTs that people are building.

Sam hinted that future iterations of GPT could allow developers to incorporate users’ own data. “The ability to know about you, your email, your calendar, how you like appointments booked, connected to other outside data sources, all of that,” he said on the podcast.

How to use GPT-5

The release date for GPT-5 hasn’t been announced yet, but it’s safe to say that it’s in the works. (OpenAI had been working on GPT-4 for at least two years before it officially launched.) It’s also possible that OpenAI could roll out an intermediate GPT-4.5 before GPT-5, like they did with 3.5. To date, there’s been no official statement from OpenAI about the timing of releases.

OpenAI’s pricing is structured so that ChatGPT Plus subscribers get access to the latest model for $20 a month, while free subscribers can use the older version. You can select the model you want to work with from a dropdown menu in ChatGPT. Here’s what it looks like currently with GPT-4:

You can change the model you work with in ChatGPT by clicking the dropdown menu.

TL;DR

So, what does all this mean for you, a programmer who’s learning about AI and curious about the future of this amazing technology? The upcoming model GPT-5 may offer significant improvements in speed and efficiency, so there’s reason to be optimistic and excited about its problem-solving capabilities. But it’s not going to instantly change the world.

“People have these unrealistic expectations that GPT-5 is going to be doing back flips in the background in my bedroom while it also writes all my code for me and talks on the phone with my mom or something like that,” Logan Kilpatrick, Head of DevRel at OpenAI, said on an episode of Lenny’s Podcast. “I’m like, ‘That’s not the case.’ It’s just going to be this very effective tool, very similar to GPT-4, and it’s also going to be become very normal very quickly.”

It’s crucial to view any flashy AI release through a pragmatic lens and manage your expectations. As AI practitioners, it’s on us to be careful, considerate, and aware of the shortcomings whenever we’re deploying language model outputs, especially in contexts with high stakes.

The best way to prepare for GPT-5 is to keep familiarizing yourself with the GPT models that are available. You can start by taking our AI courses that cover the latest AI topics, from Intro to ChatGPT to Build a Machine Learning Model and Intro to Large Language Models. We also have AI courses and case studies in our catalog that incorporate a chatbot that’s powered by GPT-3.5, so you can get hands-on experience writing, testing, and refining prompts for specific tasks using the AI system. For example, in Pair Programming with Generative AI Case Study, you can learn prompt engineering techniques to pair program in Python with a ChatGPT-like chatbot. Look at all of our new AI features to become a more efficient and experienced developer who’s ready once GPT-5 comes around.

Meet CLARA – New Stylish WordPress Theme

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Meet CLARA – New Stylish WordPress Theme

I’m thrilled to announce the latest addition to our shop – a brand-new Stylish WordPress Theme called CLARA. With its clean and simple appearance, it’s perfect for displaying your remarkable content, especially if you focus on photos. Nowadays, many pre-made designs come with several homepage sections that may look impressive in the preview, but can be challenging to fill with content, particularly if you’re just starting with a small business. But don’t worry, I’ve got you! I create all designs to not only meet your needs but also to have the flexibility to expand as your business grows.

Main Features of this Stylish WP Theme

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Weekly Student New Quiz: TikTok, Russia, Pi Day

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Weekly Student New Quiz: TikTok, Russia, Pi Day

Above is an image related to one of the news stories we followed this past week. Do you know what it shows? At the bottom of this quiz, you’ll find the answer.

Have you been paying attention to current events? See how many of these 10 questions you can get right.

Are Super Strict Schools Good for Students?

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Are Super Strict Schools Good for Students?

The following paragraphs describe a secondary school in England:

As the teacher started to count down, the students uncrossed their arms and bowed their heads, completing the exercise in a flash.

“Three. Two. One,” the teacher said. Pens across the room went down and all eyes shot back to the teacher. Under a policy called “Slant” (Sit up, Lean forward, Ask and answer questions, Nod your head and Track the speaker), the students, aged 11 and 12, were barred from looking away.

When a digital bell beeped (traditional clocks are “not precise enough,” the principal said) the students walked quickly and silently to the cafeteria in a single line. There they yelled a poem — “Ozymandias,” by Percy Bysshe Shelley — in unison, then ate for 13 minutes as they discussed that day’s mandatory lunch topic: how to survive a superintelligent killer snail.

What is your impression of this school? Does it sound anything like the one you go to? Does it sound like somewhere you would like to attend?

In “‘You Can Hear a Pin Drop’: The Rise of Super Strict Schools in England,” Emma Bubola writes about the spread of schools like these across England:

In the decade since the Michaela Community School opened in northwest London, the publicly funded but independently run secondary school has emerged as a leader of a movement convinced that children from disadvantaged backgrounds need strict discipline, rote learning and controlled environments to succeed.

“How do those who come from poor backgrounds make a success of their lives? Well, they have to work harder,” said the principal, Katharine Birbalsingh, who has a cardboard cutout of Russell Crowe in “Gladiator” in her office with the quote, “Hold the Line.” In her social media profiles, she proclaims herself “Britain’s Strictest Headmistress.”

“What you need to do is pull the fence tight,” she added. “Children crave discipline.”

While some critics call Ms. Birbalsingh’s model oppressive, her school has the highest rate of academic progress in England, according to a government measure of the improvement pupils make between age 11 and 16, and its approach is becoming increasingly popular.

In a growing number of schools, days are marked by strict routines and detentions for minor infractions, like forgetting a pencil case or having an untidy uniform. Corridors are silent as students are forbidden to speak with their peers.

The article also discusses criticisms:

But some educators have expressed concern about the broader zero-tolerance approach, saying that controlling students’ behavior so minutely might produce excellent academic results, but does not foster autonomy or critical thinking. Draconian punishments for minor infractions can also come at a psychological cost, they say.

“It’s like they’ve taken 1984 and read it as a how-to manual as opposed to a satire,” said Phil Beadle, an award-winning British secondary school teacher and author.

To him, free time and discussion are as important to child development as good academic results. He worries that a “cultlike environment that required total compliance” can deprive children of their childhood.

Students, read the entire article and then tell us:

  • How strict is your school? Do you ever wish there were more order and discipline for students? Do you wish there were less?

  • Supporters of the zero-tolerance approach say that it helps children succeed. Critics say it is oppressive. What do you think? Are super strict schools good for students? Why or why not?

  • At the core of this movement is the idea that “children from disadvantaged backgrounds need strict discipline, rote learning and controlled environments to succeed.” What is your reaction to that?

  • What would your ideal learning environment look like? How would students behave? How would teachers and administrators interact with you? What rules and policies would be in place? Why?

  • One principal of a school that does not follow the zero-tolerance model said that getting high academic scores is not the only goal of education. Do you agree? What does being successful as a student mean to you? Is it earning good grades? Getting into the college or line of work that you dream of? Learning to be independent and to think critically? Something else?

Students 13 and older in the United States and Britain, and 16 and older elsewhere, are invited to comment. All comments are moderated by the Learning Network staff, but please keep in mind that once your comment is accepted, it will be made public and may appear in print.

Find more Student Opinion questions here. Teachers, check out this guide to learn how you can incorporate these prompts into your classroom.

Spring

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Spring

In the Northern Hemisphere, the vernal equinox — when day and night are equal in length — will officially take place Tuesday, March 19, at 11:06 p.m. In simpler terms: Goodbye winter, spring is here!

Baseball. The blossoming of flowers. Going outside without a jacket and not feeling a chill. What are your favorite things about this time of year? What are your most vivid memories of spring?

Tell us in the comments, and then read the related newsletter about why the season couldn’t have come sooner for one author.

Students 13 and older in the United States and Britain, and 16 and older elsewhere, are invited to comment. All comments are moderated by the Learning Network staff, but please keep in mind that once your comment is accepted, it will be made public and may appear in print.

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Do You Use, Like, Too Many Filler Words?

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Do You Use, Like, Too Many Filler Words?

Do you use words like “like,” “um” and “you know” often? Do your friends?

Do you think these filler words get in the way of communication? Or, do they help?

In “Where Did Our Strange Use of ‘Like’ Come From?” John McWhorter writes about the history and evolution of the popular four-letter filler word:

Some months ago, one of my readers sent me an invaluable cache of recordings of family members during therapy sessions in the 1960s. They are ordinary, seemingly educated, white Northeasterners ranging from their late 20s to late middle age speaking casually. And what stands out today, 60 years later, is how often they pause briefly when they talk. Their speech sounds almost herky-jerky to the modern ear.

The reason their speech sounds somewhat odd in that way is that today people like those on the recording would fill many of those pauses with “like.”

It’s not, as sometimes assumed, that people used to talk formally or like books any more than they do now. Casual speech, always and everywhere in any language, is all about short sentences, often unfinished, often with occasional hesitations. But only in the late 1970s did “like” take its confident perch in American English.

The question is why. The answer is not the Frank Zappa’s cute 1982 ditty “Valley Girl,” featuring his teenage daughter, Moon. For one thing, a single song doesn’t change the way people talk every day. For another, that song only leads to the question of why Moon was using “like” that way, given that it wasn’t just her quirk; she was part of what we now call a thing.

Some people think this usage of “like” reflects some kind of epidemic of uncertainty among young people. But the casual “like” has now been entrenched long enough that many of its users are graying at the temples and then some. How unconfident are these near-sexagenarians?

Mr. McWhorter continues:

English is also oddly explicit about, of all things, restraint. We speak with a tacit impulse to keep the drama level moderate, to avoid stridency. One way of doing this is to use the hesitations I referred to in that 1960s recording: You pause before saying something that raises the temperature a bit, reflects an opinion that might arouse, pushes the envelope. But one might also spell out the hesitation more overtly, and this is where the casual “like” comes in. It quietly implies that what’s coming up is like itself rather than just itself, which lowers the temperature, keeps the burner on medium rather than high.

“Like”— as well as “sort of,” which has become a “like” for more formal settings, with “kind of” often filling in as a variant of both — is a subtle thing. To learn to use it idiomatically as a foreigner is as tricky as learning how those variations of the English future tense really work. There is even a masterly academic book on the subject. But most of the ways the casual “like” is used are ultimately variations on that quest for lowering the temperature. Here, for example, is a word-for-word transcription of an American undergraduate speaking casually in the 2020s, recorded for nonlinguistic purposes. In writing, it looks shaggy, but in real life, the person sounded perfectly fluent and even intelligent:

In terms of, like, figuring out how to do that exactly, like, what to, like, um, look for specifically, especially because, like, they’re, you know, like, in the workplace setting, like, your job is to follow the guidelines so, like, you know, kind of figuring out how to learn, like, what, how the conflicts are playing out.

The “likes” in that quote occur not just anywhere but before something new, something with a bit of impact: the task of figuring something out, the issue that this is a workplace setting rather than your house, the challenge of following new rules, the drama of conflicts. One could certainly express all of this without the use of “like” and “you know” and “kind of,” but the result would be a little crisp for casual conversation, perhaps a tad Boy Scout or Leslie Knope-ish.

Students, read the entire essay and then tell us:

  • Do you use filler words when speaking? If so, tell us which words, phrases or sounds — and how and when you employ them? Do you think you could ever cut them out?

  • What purpose do fillers serve? Do you think they help to improve communication or do they get in the way of it?

  • What’s your reaction to Mr. McWhorter’s essay? Are you surprised by the history and evolution of the word “like”? Mr. McWhorter rejects the idea that the prevalence of the word “like” reflects “some kind of epidemic of uncertainty among young people,” and instead argues that it’s “actually a symptom of something more general about how languages change over time.” How persuasive is his argument?

  • Does reading the essay make you more curious about the history and development of language? What words, or aspects of human communication in general, would you like to learn more about?

Students 13 and older in the United States and Britain, and 16 and older elsewhere, are invited to comment. All comments are moderated by the Learning Network staff, but please keep in mind that once your comment is accepted, it will be made public and may appear in print.

Find more Student Opinion questions here. Teachers, check out this guide to learn how you can incorporate these prompts into your classroom.

Word of the Day: counterintuitive

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Word of the Day: counterintuitive

The word counterintuitive has appeared in 114 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Jan. 24 in “How to Exercise When It Feels Impossible” by Danielle Friedman:

It might seem counterintuitive, but for those who struggle with forms of chronic muscle or joint discomfort — like low back pain, neck pain or pain from osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis — physical activity will likely help to make it better, Dr. Phillips said.

“Chronic pain is awful, but for many people, being inactive is adding to that pain,” he said. While exercise may not alleviate all pain, it can help people complete daily activities with greater ease — and expand what they’re able to do comfortably from, say, walking to the mailbox to going for a stroll on the beach or playing catch with a child.

Can you correctly use the word counterintuitive in a sentence?

Based on the definition and example provided, write a sentence using today’s Word of the Day and share it as a comment on this article. It is most important that your sentence makes sense and demonstrates that you understand the word’s definition, but we also encourage you to be creative and have fun.

If you want a better idea of how counterintuitive can be used in a sentence, read these usage examples on Vocabulary.com. You can also visit this guide to learn how to use IPA symbols to show how different words are pronounced.

If you enjoy this daily challenge, try our vocabulary quizzes.

Students ages 13 and older in the United States and the United Kingdom, and 16 and older elsewhere, can comment. All comments are moderated by the Learning Network staff.

The Word of the Day is provided by Vocabulary.com. Learn more and see usage examples across a range of subjects in the Vocabulary.com Dictionary. See every Word of the Day in this column.

Comment on Easter Gift Tags | Free Printable by Kate

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Free Printable Valentine Game For Kids - I Spy Valentine

This year’s class Valentine card idea is sugar-free and so much FUN! Your children and their classmates will love searching for hidden Valentine’s icons. We can guarantee that this free printable Valentine game will be a hit!

How to Play Free Printable Valentine Game

Listed along the edges are the items to be found; from balloons to cupcakes to roses. I’m planning on sending this Valentine with my preschooler, 2nd grader and 4th grader – it works for both boys and girls and is fun for all ages!

Here’s what you’ll need to create them:

  • The printable linked below printed on any color card stock paper. The printable includes 3 I Spy Valentine Games per page.
  • A paper cutter to cut each card 4 inches wide by 6.75 inches tall.
  • Magnifying glasses. (optional)
  • A mini hole punch. Punch two holes on either side of the narrowest part of the magnifying glass and secure it with some bright baker’s twine. You can also use patterned washi tape to hold the magnifying glass in a place like we did with pencils for A-maze-ing Valentine Prints.

If you’re pressed for time and want to simplify even more, you can skip the magnifying glass altogether. Crop it right above the game title and you still have a creative, unique Valentine’s Day card to distribute!

For Personal Use Only.

If you are looking for more seasonal freebies, make sure to check our free printables library

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If you have an idea for a printable, let us know in the comments! We are always looking for inspiration. If you decide to print today’s Free Printable Valentine Game, make sure to share some photos. You can do so by tagging us on Instagram or Twitter.

Colorful Free Kindergarten Valentine's Day Printable

Make sure to check A-maze-ing Cards too! It is perfect for Valentine’s Day celebration with kids.

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