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OpenAI and Meta could soon release the new ChatGPT-5 and Llama 3 models These AI could be made much more powerful with the ability to plan and reason

By Wiliam Hunter

Published: 14:21 BST, 10 April 2024 | Updated: 14:21 BST, 10 April 2024

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As far as AI has come in the last few years there are still a few things that machines can't do as well as humans.

However, all of that might soon change as OpenAI and Meta are both reported to be on the brink of releasing AIs capable of reasoning and planning.

Leaders of both companies suggest that the latest versions of their AI models are coming soon and will be a lot more powerful.

According to their reports, ChatGPT-5 and Llama-3 will not just generate text but start to do something that looks a lot more like thinking.

Joelle Pineau, vice-president of AI research at Meta says: 'We are hard at work in figuring out how to get these models not just to talk, but actually to reason, to plan... to have memory.'

Meta, Facebook's parent company, has confirmed that it will soon release the next generation of its AI model which could have the capacity to reason and plan

Will AI become sentient?

Meta and OpenAI's next generation of AI may have the ability to plan and reason.

However, this level of intelligence might not translate to sentience.

Sentience requires the ability to experience feelings and sensations.

Better reasoning skills could give AI an improved ability to create a mental model of themselves and their actions.

But just making them more intelligent does not mean they will develop feelings or emotions.

Meta told MailOnline that the company would soon begin sharing early versions of its Llama 3 model alongside a full collection of models due to release throughout 2024.

OpenAI has plans to release GPT-5 'soon', executives told the Financial Times.

Currently, apps like ChatGPT use AIs called Large Language Models (LLMs) to predict what words should come next in a sentence.

By training these LLMs on lots of data, the AI gets so good at predicting strings of words that it starts to sound like an intelligent, thinking agent.

However, Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, says that even the best AI can still 'make stupid mistakes'.

Speaking at a Meta event in London this Tuesday, Mr LeCun said that AIs currently 'produce one word after the other really without thinking and planning.'

He added that adding the ability to reason would allow AI to search through possible answers, plan out its actions,