{"id":13930,"date":"2025-09-29T04:58:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=13930"},"modified":"2025-09-29T04:58:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:58:56","slug":"what-if-a-i-doesnt-get-much-better-than-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/what-if-a-i-doesnt-get-much-better-than-this\/13930\/","title":{"rendered":"What if A.I. Doesn\u2019t Get Much Better Than This?"},"content":{"rendered":"Originally published on\u00a0The New Yorker, August 12, 2025. GPT-5, a new release from OpenAI, is the latest product to suggest that progress on large language models has stalled. Much of the euphoria and dread swirling around today\u2019s artificial-intelligence technologies can be traced back to January, 2020, when a team of researchers at OpenAI published a thirty-page report titled \u201cScaling Laws for Neural Language Models.\u201d The team was led by the A.I. researcher Jared Kaplan, and included Dario Amodei, who is now the C.E.O. of Anthropic. They investigated a fairly nerdy question: What happens to the performance of language <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/what-if-a-i-doesnt-get-much-better-than-this\/13930\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published on\u00a0The New Yorker, August 12, 2025. GPT-5, a new release from OpenAI, is the latest product to suggest that progress on large language models has stalled. Much of the euphoria and dread swirling around today\u2019s artificial-intelligence technologies can be traced back to January, 2020, when a team of researchers at OpenAI published a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13931,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13930\/revisions\/13931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}