Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence

Highlights from 95 Pages

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I recently finished reading the intriguing paper Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4 published by researchers at Microsoft in spring 2023. In this post, I provide a condensed overview of the paper’s content.

The central claim of the paper is that the large language model GPT-4 demonstrates…