Chat GPT5: First Impressions after a week

Do I hate it? No. But that's not really what I was hoping for either. ChatGPT-5 dropped last week with lots of fanfare. I was so excited that when I came into work Friday morning after the announcements I fired up my app and started prompting before realizing that I didn't have access yet and would have to wait. Once it did get going, I felt, I don't know, -whelmed isn't exactly a word, but if it were, that's what I would use to describe it.

- By CARL JAVIER

That's the real problem of the ChatGPT-5 release. For the casual and regular user, it's just another model release and it isn't something people pay that much attention to. Most users on free plans don't even play around with which model they are using. There's a lot of power under the hood even in previous models, and often that power has gone untapped.

On the other end of it are the people who have been following model releases and the hype around them closely. Open AI's CEO Sam Altman has been, up until launch, hyping ChatGPT-5 as a do everything machine that would change the way we view AI altogether. He's even said it's a "significant step" on the path to AGI (AGI itself is a contentious thing, both used to get people fired up, but also a thing with moving goalposts and constantly changing definitions).