Plugins were a failure. GPTs are a little better, but I still don't see the product market fit. GPT-4 is still king, but not by that much any more. It's not even clear that they're doing great research, because they don't publish.
GPT-5 has to be incredibly good at this point, and I'm not sure that it will be.
Idk, I just tried Gemini Ultra and it's so much worse than GPT4 that I am actually quite shocked. Trying to ask it any kind of coding question ends up being this frustrating and honestly bizarre waste of time as it hallucinates a whole new language syntax every time and then asks if you want to continue with non-working, in fact non-existing, option A or the equally non-existent option B until you realise that you've spent an hour trying to make it at least output something that is even in the requested language and finally that it is completely useless.
I'm actually pretty astonished at how far Google is behind and that they released such a bunch of worthless junk at all. And have the chutzpah to ask people to pay for it!
Of course I'm looking forward to gpt-5 but even if it's only a minor step up, they're still way ahead.
Initially it felt like the singularity was at hand. You've played with it, got to know it, the computer was taking to you, it was your friend, it was exciting then you got bored with your new friend and it wasn't as great as you remember it.
Dating is often like this. You meet someone, have some amazing intimacy, then you get really get to know someone, you work out it wasn't for you and it's time to move on.
To me it feels like it detects if the answer could be answered cheaper by code interpreter model or 4 Turbo and then it offloads them to that and they just kinda suck compared to OG 4.
I’ve watched it fumble and fail to solve a problem with CI, took it 3 attempts over 5 minutes real time and just gave up in the end, a problem that OG 4 can do one shot no preamble.