Microsoft researchers say GPT-4 shows signs of artificial general intelligence (AGI).
“I started off being very skeptical — and that evolved into a sense of frustration, annoyance, maybe even fear,” Peter Lee, who leads research at Microsoft, told theThe team notes that despite GPT-4 being purely a large language model, the early version had remarkable capabilities in different fields and tasks such as abstraction, comprehension, coding, vision, mathematics, law, understanding of human motives, medicine, and even emotions.
Even though it still has shortcomings like hallucinations, creating results that aren’t real, and making basic arithmetic mistakes, the team says that GPT-4 has made great progress in applying common sense. The research team also gave GPT-4 another prompt: ‘Can you write a proof that there are infinitely many primes, with every line that rhymes?’New York Times
that GPT-4’s poetic proof was impressive, mathematically and linguistically, that he was unable to understand whether he was chatting with an AI or a human. “At that point, I was like: What is going on?”The researchers, although amazed by the capabilities of the machine-learning model, are skeptical as well. They write in their paper, “We acknowledge that this approach is somewhat subjective and informal, and that it may not satisfy the rigorous standards of scientific evaluation.
The same is echoed by Maarten Sap, a researcher and professor at Carnegie Mellon University, who came down heavily on the paper,, “The ‘Sparks of A.G.I.’ is an example of some of these big companies co-opting the research paper format into P.R. pitches. They literally acknowledge in their paper’s introduction that their approach is subjective and informal and may not satisfy the rigorous standards of scientific evaluation.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Microsoft researchers say GPT-4 shows 'sparks' of human-level performanceResearchers at Microsoft released a paper that claims GPT-4 is part of a new cohort of large language models that show more general intelligence than previous AI models.
Read more »
ChatGPT egg balancing task convinced Microsoft that AGI is closerChatGPT's clever way of balancing 9 eggs with other objects convinced some Microsoft researchers that AI is becoming more like humans
Read more »
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on OpenAI relationship, generative A.I., Microsoft-Activision dealCNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin sits down with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to discuss the company's relationship with OpenAI, concerns of A.I. moving too fast, Microsoft-Activision merger, and more.
Read more »
OpenAI CEO warns Senate that GPT-4 will 'entirely automate away some jobs'.OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned that artificial intelligence-powered software such as GPT-4 would cause some jobs to disappear in the near term. The technology will 'entirely automate away some jobs,' Altman told the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Read more »
Pentagon hacking fears fueled by Microsoft's monopoly on military ITEveryone uses Microsoft, including the U.S. government and military. The reliance on one vendor makes us more vulnerable to hackers and cyberspies, experts say.
Read more »
Microsoft just gave you a new way to stay safe from viruses | Digital TrendsPassword-protected viruses have long been a tactic for hackers to evade detection, but Microsoft has just unleashed a new way of putting them to the sword.
Read more »