Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4

[Edward K. Ream]

This breathless two-minute paper references an arXiv preprint from Microsoft Research: Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4.

I highly recommend reading this paper. The researchers have taken Félix's suggestion to the next level and beyond.

The preprint is 155 pages long, consisting of prompts to GPT-4 and analyses of results. The paper highlights the strengths and limitations of GPT-4 in far more detail than popular accounts.

The sections on mathematics are particularly intriguing and mysterious. On the one hand, GPT-4 writes spectacularly well. I get a strong impression that its responses involve planning. But this impression seems to be misleading, as its math mistakes show.

Summary thoughts

I do not understand why GPT-4 (or its predecessors) can create coherent text with the limitations revealed in the paper. The more I learn about GPT systems, the more mysterious they seem.

Nobody, including experts, can predict where all this will lead. Current AI research is true intelligent design :-)

Edward

[Edward K. Ream]

On Monday, April 17, 2023 at 6:09:09 AM UTC-5 Edward K. Ream wrote:

This breathless two-minute paper references an arXiv preprint from Microsoft Research

I dismissed Dr. Károly Zsolnai-Fehér's YouTube video as "breathless." However,  his excitement about what might be called the "composition of tools" is well founded. There's no telling what will happen next.

Edward