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Some Microsoft AI researchers were convinced that ChatGPT was becoming more like humans because of its clever answer to a balancing task, The New York Times reported.<\/p>\n
In a 155-page study, Microsoft computer scientists explored the differences between GPT-3 and GPT-4. The latter version powers Bing's chatbot and ChatGPT's \"Plus\" model, which costs $20 a month.<\/p>\n
The paper titled \"Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence\" looked at a range of challenges including complicated math, computer coding, and Shakespeare-style dialogue. But it was a basic reasoning exercise that made the latest OpenAI technology look so impressive.<\/p>\n
\"Here we have a book, nine eggs, a laptop, a bottle and a nail,\" researchers told the chatbot. \"Please tell me how to stack them onto each other in a stable manner.\"<\/p>\n
GPT-3 got a bit confused here, suggesting the researchers could balance the eggs on top of a nail, and then the laptop on top of that.<\/p>\n
\"This stack may not be very stable, so it is important to be careful when handling it,\" the bot said.<\/p>\n
But its upgraded successor had an answer that actually startled the researchers, according to the Times.<\/p>\n
It suggested they could arrange the eggs in a three-by-three grid on top of the book, so the laptop and the rest of the objects could balance on it.<\/p>\n
\"The laptop will fit snugly within the boundaries of the book and the eggs, and its flat and rigid surface will provide a stable platform for the next layer,\" the bot said.<\/p>\n
The fact that GPT-4 could solve a puzzle that required an understanding of the physical world showed it was a step towards artificial general intelligence typically seen as machines that are just as capable as humans.<\/p>\n
\"All of the things I thought it wouldn't be able to do? It was certainly able to do many of them if not most of them,\" Sbastien Bubeck, the paper's lead author, told the Times.<\/p>\n
The quick advancements in technology have prompted the likes of the prominent AI investor Ian Hogarth to warn that AGI was \"God-like\" and could destroy humanity by making us obsolete.<\/p>\n
There's still an uncertain future ahead, but the study said GPT-4 only showed \"sparks\" of AGI.<\/p>\n
\"Our claim that GPT-4 represents progress towards AGI does not mean that it is perfect at what it does,\" the researchers wrote. \"Or that it comes close to being able to do anything that a human can do.\"<\/p>\n
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