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Is GPT-4 already showing signs of artificial general intelligence?

Microsoft has created a series of tests for OpenAI's GPT-4 that it claims show the artificial intelligence model is already displaying "sparks" of general intelligence

By Matthew Sparkes

24 March 2023

GPT-4 can perform a range of tasks

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Microsoft researchers have claimed that OpenAI’s GPT-4 is capable of such a wide variety of tasks, in some cases exceeding human ability, that the artificial intelligence model is showing “sparks” of artificial general intelligence (AGI). Is this long-awaited goal near or are these claims just hype?

While no standard definition of AGI exists, it is most commonly understood to refer to an AI that can understand and learn any intellectual task that humans are capable of.

In a new paper, a team of …

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