AI’s Reality Check: ChatGPT‘s Stumble Highlights Growing Risks of “Slippage“
By Jean-Philippe Baril guérard, Special Collaboration – World-Today-News.com
(August 24, 2025, 9:00 a.m. EDT) - The hype surrounding artificial intelligence often outpaces reality, fueled by science fiction tropes and sensationalized headlines. But a recent, highly visible failure of OpenAI’s much-anticipated ChatGPT-5 update is serving as a stark reminder of the growing risks of “slippage” – the gap between AI’s promise and its actual performance - and the potential for embarrassment as these tools become increasingly integrated into our lives.
The launch of GPT-5,announced by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on X (formerly Twitter) with a visually suggestive image evoking the Death Star from Star Wars,was met with considerable fanfare. Though,the subsequent live presentation on August 7th was riddled with awkwardness and featured AI-generated graphics of questionable quality.Far from being the “best model in the world” for writing and coding, as Altman proclaimed, GPT-5 quickly revealed itself too be a notable disappointment, and in certain specific cases, a regression from previous iterations.Altman had touted a ”doctoral level erudition” for the new model. Yet,GPT-5 struggled with remarkably basic queries - failing to accurately answer questions like the number of fingers on a human hand or the number of ”B”s in the word “blueberry” (the answer is 3,incidentally).
This isn’t simply a matter of a flawed update. It underscores a critical issue: the tendency to overpromise and underdeliver in the AI space. As AI tools become more pervasive, these instances of “slippage” aren’t just embarrassing; they erode trust and raise serious questions about the reliability of these technologies.
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