Mysterious 'gpt2-chatbot' Sparks Speculation: Is it OpenAI's Next Upgrade?

The AI community is abuzz over the emergence of a mysterious AI chatbot named "gpt2-chatbot" on the LMSYS Chat platform, renowned for testing large language models. Users have noted the chatbot's advanced reasoning skills and its ability to answer challenging questions with an impressive tone, leading to speculation about its origins. While some believe it could be a supercharged version of OpenAI's GPT-2 model, others speculate it might be an early release of GPT-5, given its exceptional performance. The chatbot's humanlike tone, mathematical competency, and coding skills have garnered attention from users, who are intrigued by its capabilities. Despite users asking about its creator, the bot claims to be created by OpenAI, though the organisation has not commented on its emergence. However, OpenAI has previously stated that GPT-5 is slated for a mid-2024 release, adding to the mystery surrounding "gpt2-chatbot" identity.