{"id":160895,"date":"2023-03-23T20:25:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T01:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/microsoft-researchers-claim-gpt-4-is-showing-sparks-of-agi"},"modified":"2023-03-23T20:25:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T01:25:48","slug":"microsoft-researchers-claim-gpt-4-is-showing-sparks-of-agi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/microsoft-researchers-claim-gpt-4-is-showing-sparks-of-agi","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Researchers Claim GPT-4 Is Showing \u201cSparks\u201d of AGI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-researchers-claim-gpt-4-is-showing-sparks-of-agi2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fresh on the heels of GPT-4\u2019s public release, a team of Microsoft AI scientists published a <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2303.12712\" class=\"\">research paper<\/a> claiming the <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/openai-sleazy-company-creating-agi\" class=\"\">OpenAI language model<\/a> \u2014 which powers Microsoft\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/microsoft-limited-bing-ai\" class=\"\">now somewhat lobotomized<\/a> Bing AI \u2014 shows \u201csparks\u201d of human-level intelligence, or artificial general intelligence (AGI).<\/p>\n<p>Emphasis on the \u201csparks.\u201d The researchers are careful in the paper to characterize GPT-4\u2019s prowess as \u201conly a first step towards a series of increasingly generally intelligent systems\u201d rather than fully-hatched, human-level AI. They also repeatedly highlighted the fact that this paper is based on an \u201cearly version\u201d of GPT-4, which they studied while it was \u201cstill in active development by OpenAI,\u201d and not necessarily the version that\u2019s been wrangled into product-applicable formation.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimers aside, though, these are some serious claims to make. Though a lot of folks out there, even some within the AI industry, think of AGI as a pipe dream, others think that developing AGI will usher in the next era of humanity\u2019s future; the next-gen GPT-4 is the most powerful iteration of the OpenAI-built Large Language Model (LLM) to date, and on the theoretical list of potential AGI contenders, GPT-4 is somewhere around the top of the list, if not number one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh on the heels of GPT-4\u2019s public release, a team of Microsoft AI scientists published a research paper claiming the OpenAI language model \u2014 which powers Microsoft\u2019s now somewhat lobotomized Bing AI \u2014 shows \u201csparks\u201d of human-level intelligence, or artificial general intelligence (AGI). Emphasis on the \u201csparks.\u201d The researchers are careful in the paper to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}