Fri. 08/08 – GPT-5 Fallout

Tech Brew Ride Home

Amalgamated Internets, LLC

News, Technology, Daily News, Tech News

4.7 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Tracking the fallout and implications from GPT-5’s rollout yesterday. Why is Google’s AI chatbot filled with self-loathing and recrimination? Are President Trump’s comments just the latest worry for the CEO of Intel? Are those AI coding companies actually making any money? And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Links: GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and model card (Simon Willison) GPT-5 Hands-On: Welcome to the Stone Age (Latent Space) Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments (Business Insider) Intel’s Chief Holds Firm After Trump Demands His Resignation (NYTimes) High costs and thin margins threatening AI coding startups (TechCrunch) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: AI Is Coming for the Consultants. Inside McKinsey, ‘This Is Existential.’ (WSJ) SEO Is Dead. Say Hello to GEO. (NYMag) Is Perrier as pure as it claims? The bottled water scandal gripping France (BBC) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Brew Ride Home for Friday, August 8th, 2025. I'm Brian McCalla today.
0:09.0	Tracking the fallout and implications from GPT5's rollout yesterday. Why is Google's AI chatbot filled with self-loathing and recrimination?
0:18.0	Are President Trump's comments just the latest worry for the CEO of Intel?
0:23.0	Are those AI coding companies actually making any money? And of course, the weekend long-read
0:27.8	suggestions. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:33.9	I went on my new sibling podcast, Morning Brew Daily this morning to about GPT-5, and since I had to speak to a general non-tech audience, that kind of helped me sum up my thinking about what we saw yesterday. Is GPT-5 a step change, like the move from GPT 3 to 4? The early consensus seems to be definitely not.
0:56.7	Is it possibly, probably better for most users?
1:00.2	It certainly looks that way.
1:02.5	But in essence, the idea that GPT5 would come and blow everybody out of the water,
1:07.3	that seems to be off the table.
1:08.9	This release tends to support the thesis that we
1:11.6	might be reaching the ceiling of what this architecture of AI technology can do. AI releases
1:19.0	might become like smartphone releases, a new one every so often with genuine improvements
1:24.6	at the margins, but iterative updates, not evolutionary ones, at least until
1:30.6	some new breakthrough happens, probably beyond the transformer architecture or whatever.
1:36.0	What does that mean for the overall industry?
1:39.0	It remains to be seen, I guess.
1:40.5	What does that mean for OpenAI?
1:42.9	Remains to be seen.
1:46.0	GPT5 is probably the state of the art for now, but it's only marginally better and only in some areas than say Claude or GROC or whatever.
1:53.6	In essence, these models are commodities all of the sudden. Will someone be able to create a feature
1:59.4	that no one else has? Maybe. Is some model
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 4 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Amalgamated Internets, LLC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Amalgamated Internets, LLC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.