The mysterious AI chatbot “gpt2-chatbot” returned to the major language model benchmarking site LMSYS Org on Monday evening, about a week later it suddenly disappeared. But now there are two: “I am a good GPT2 chatbot” and “I am also a good GPT2 chatbot”. These models showed the same GPT-4 level capabilities, some even say they are even better than the original.
These models are even more volatile than the first gpt2 chatbot. Most AI models on LMSYS can be selected from a drop-down menu. The only way to access I am a good GPT2 chatbot and I am also a good GPT2 chatbot is to navigate to LMSYS Chatbot Arena (Combat). There you can type a prompt and hope that one of the chatbots randomly shows up. Despite the strange nature of these AI chatbots, they have once again attracted significant attention in the AI community.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tweeted “im-a-good-gpt2-chatbot” on Sunday, a day before these chatbots went live, which many see as confirmation that OpenAI is A/B testing new models. LMSYS Org typically only works with large AI model providers and many of them offer anonymous testing services. Gizmodo couldn’t verify this, but that didn’t stop the online community from indulging in wild speculation about what OpenAI was cooking up.
OpenAI and LMSYS Org did not immediately respond to Gizmodo’s request for comment.
On Reddit and Der most popular theory These channels say that gpt2-chatbot is an old AI model from OpenAI supported by an advanced architecture. However, this is all speculation and it is still unclear whether these AI models even come from OpenAI.
Online communities were also impressed by “Ia-good-gpt2-chatbot” and “I-also-a-good-gpt2-chatbot”. Some say that, just like the original gpt2 chatbot, these AI models outperform current versions of ChatGPT. One user claims he can program a mobile game by simply asking “program Flappy Bird game in Python.”
OpenAI reportedly planned an event at the company’s headquarters on Thursday to present product demonstrations and share updates The information. However, according to the report, the company is now considering postponing the event. The report did not specify what the event was about.
At a speech at Harvard University last week, Altman told a crowd that the gpt2 chatbot was not GPT-4.5, according to a Report from Axios. However, Altman did not clarify whether this was an OpenAI product or not.
Gizmodo was able to deploy im-a-good-gpt2-chatbot in the LMSYS battle arena. In our limited testing, we found the chatbot to have similar capabilities to GPT-4 and other AI models in this class. It answered some questions more accurately than Meta’s Llama-3b-70b statement.
Still, there is very little information about where these gpt2 chatbots come from. It seems clear that a powerful actor is behind them, and Altman seems intent on stoking the fire as online communities speculate that it is OpenAI. Regardless, new AI models are on the horizon, even if we don’t know where they came from.