Hey, what's up y'all?
This is Eric Andre.
Well, I made a podcast called Bombing about absolutely tanking on stage.
I tell gnarly stories and I talk to friends about their worst moments of bombing in all sorts of ways.
Bombing on stage, bombing in public, bombing in life.
I want to know what's the worst way they've ever bombed?
Or have they ever performed way too drunk or high?
Or was there ever a time where they thought they were going to crush and they stunk it up?
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Hello you.
It's your better Offline monologue and I'm your host, Ed Zitron.
Better Offline now.
Next week I'm gonna have a two parter that digs into Microsoft's data center pullback and OpenAI's shaky new funding situation.
But this week's monologue focuses on OpenAI's new model, GPT 4.5.
You may be wondering what it does differently to GPT 4.0 or Claude Sonnet 3.7 or any number of other large language models.
And if I'm honest, I have absolutely no idea.
Thankfully, neither does Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, who said, and I quote, that GPT 4.5 was the first model that feels like talking to a thoughtful person to him, which makes me wonder what the other models have been like.
So I went back and look so compare this to the launch of GPT4.O, which Altman called OpenAI's best model ever, saying that it was fast, smart, natively multimodal, referring to the ability to accept text as well as audio and video and photos as well, and available to all ChatGPT users, including on their free plan, adding that it was a very good model, especially at coding.
By contrast, Altman summarized GPT 4.5 as a giant, expensive model, one that required hundreds of thousands of GPUs to launch beyond ChatGPT Pro.
It started there.