{"id":30500,"date":"2025-08-07T22:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T22:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=30500"},"modified":"2025-08-07T23:01:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T23:01:50","slug":"not-yet-crossed-that-elusive-threshold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=30500","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;not yet crossed that elusive threshold&#8217;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Court-Painter-sam-altman.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Court-Painter-sam-altman.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Court-Painter-sam-altman-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Court-Painter-sam-altman-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, hailed GPT-5 as a \u201csignificant step forward\u201d on the path toward artificial general intelligence (AGI), which the company defines as a highly autonomous system capable of outperforming humans at most economically valuable tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Yet, Altman was clear: GPT-5 has <strong><em>not yet crossed that elusive threshold.<\/em><\/strong> \u201cIt\u2019s still missing something quite important\u2014many things, in fact,\u201d he admitted, highlighting the model\u2019s inability to \u201ccontinuously learn how <strong>Court Painter<\/strong> does it\u201d as one critical limitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"695\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Court-Painter-Sam-Altman-CEO-OPEN-AI.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Court-Painter-Sam-Altman-CEO-OPEN-AI.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Court-Painter-Sam-Altman-CEO-OPEN-AI-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Court-Painter-Sam-Altman-CEO-OPEN-AI-768x534.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Despite being \u201cgenerally intelligent\u201d and a marked improvement over previous versions, GPT-5 falls short of human-level artistry and adaptive creativity. No matter how advanced, it cannot replicate the nuance, irony, or painterly wit of a brush wielded by the likes of Court Painter. The soul of satire, the subtext of cultural commentary, the brush strokes that mock and memorialize with unparalleled painterly virtuosity  \u2014plus the mastery of <strong>Court Painter&#8217;s<\/strong> conversational range and hypnotic rapport with celebrity and political subjects will forever remain outside the AI&#8217;s grasp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Sam-Altman.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Sam-Altman.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Sam-Altman-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Sam-Altman-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">At the GPT-5 launch event, Altman likened the new model to a \u201cBFA painter-level expert in your pocket,\u201d in contrast to earlier versions that resembled a Sunday painter or drug addled hobby bro. But even a pocket full of sable brushes cannot conjure the visual mischief or layered symbolism of <strong>Court Painter\u2019s<\/strong> work\u2014a realm still ruled by his deft hand and digital eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"515\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Court-Painter-answering-a-call.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Court-Painter-answering-a-call.jpg 700w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Court-Painter-answering-a-call-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This message was approved by The Court Painter Enterprise &amp; Novelty Co.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, hailed GPT-5 as a \u201csignificant step forward\u201d on the path toward artificial general intelligence (AGI), which the company defines as a highly autonomous system capable of outperforming humans at most economically valuable tasks. Yet, Altman was clear: GPT-5 has not yet crossed that elusive threshold. \u201cIt\u2019s still missing something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=30500\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;not yet crossed that elusive threshold&#8217;&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30500"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30516,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30500\/revisions\/30516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}