I think a lot of those trick questions outputting stupid stuff can be explained by simple economics.
It's just not sustainable for OpenAI to run GPT at the best of its abilities on every request. Their new router is not trying to give you the most accurate answer, but a balance of speed/accuracy/sustainable cost on their side.
(kind of) a similar thing happened when 4o came out, they often tinkered with it and the results were sometimes suddenly a lot worse, it's not that the model is bad, they're just doing all kind of optimizations/tricks because they can barely afford to run it for everyone.
When sama says he believe it to have a PhD level, I almost believe him, because he have full access and can use it at 100% of its power all the time.
Even OSS 20b gets it right the first time, I think the author was just mistakenly routed to the dumbest model because it seemed like an easy unimportant question.
It's just not sustainable for OpenAI to run GPT at the best of its abilities on every request. Their new router is not trying to give you the most accurate answer, but a balance of speed/accuracy/sustainable cost on their side.
(kind of) a similar thing happened when 4o came out, they often tinkered with it and the results were sometimes suddenly a lot worse, it's not that the model is bad, they're just doing all kind of optimizations/tricks because they can barely afford to run it for everyone.
When sama says he believe it to have a PhD level, I almost believe him, because he have full access and can use it at 100% of its power all the time.
Even OSS 20b gets it right the first time, I think the author was just mistakenly routed to the dumbest model because it seemed like an easy unimportant question.