Microsoft's AI Shows Promising Signs of Human-Level Reasoning

Microsoft researchers have published a paper claiming that GPT-4, a large language model released by OpenAI, has shown "sparks" of artificial general intelligence, exhibiting abilities that are "strikingly close to human-level performance." The researchers demonstrated that GPT-4 can solve novel and difficult tasks in various fields without needing any special prompting. However, critics argue that general intelligence requires familiarity with the physical world, which GPT-4, in theory, does not have. OpenAI warned users to be careful when using language model outputs, as GPT-4 still "hallucinates" facts and makes reasoning errors.