{"id":10849,"date":"2023-07-22T15:37:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T13:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/22\/caw-blimey-gpt-4-may-be-just-an-ai-language-parrot-but-its-no-birdbrain-john-naughton\/"},"modified":"2023-07-22T15:37:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T13:37:26","slug":"caw-blimey-gpt-4-may-be-just-an-ai-language-parrot-but-its-no-birdbrain-john-naughton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/22\/caw-blimey-gpt-4-may-be-just-an-ai-language-parrot-but-its-no-birdbrain-john-naughton\/","title":{"rendered":"Caw-blimey, GPT-4 may be just an AI language parrot, but it\u2019s no birdbrain | John Naughton"},"content":{"rendered":"

The advanced large language model\u2019s ability to reason is a feather in the cap for developers of generative AI technology<\/p>\n

In 2017, researchers at the British AI company DeepMind (now Google DeepMind) published an extraordinary paper<\/a> describing how their new algorithm, AlphaZero, had taught itself to play a number of games to superhuman standards without any instruction. The machine could, they wrote, \u201cachieve, tabula rasa<\/em>, superhuman performance in many challenging domains. Starting from random play, and given no domain knowledge except the game rules, AlphaZero achieved within 24 hours a superhuman level of play in the games of chess and shogi (Japanese chess) as well as Go, and convincingly defeated a world-champion program in each case.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking afterwards at a big machine-learning conference, DeepMind\u2019s chief executive, Demis Hassabis (himself a world-class chess player), observed that the program often made moves that would seem unthinkable to a human chess player. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t play like a human,\u201d he said, \u201cand it doesn\u2019t play like a program. It plays in a third, almost alien, way.\u201d It would be an overstatement to say that AlphaZero\u2019s capabilities spooked those who built it, but it clearly surprised some of them. It was, one (privately) noted later, a bit like putting your baby daughter to sleep one evening and finding her solving equations in the morning.<\/p>\n

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\nThe advanced large language model\u2019s ability to reason is a feather in the cap for developers of generative AI technology
\nIn 2017, researchers at the British AI company DeepMind (now Google DeepMind) published an extraordinary paper describing how their new algorithm, AlphaZero, had taught itself to play a number of games to superhuman standards without any instruction. The machine could, they wrote, \u201cachieve, tabula rasa, superhuman performance in many challenging domains. Starting from random play, and given no domain knowledge except the game rules, AlphaZero achieved within 24 hours a superhuman level of play in the games of chess and shogi (Japanese chess) as well as Go, and convincingly defeated a world-champion program in each case.\u201d
\nSpeaking afterwards at a big machine-learning conference, DeepMind\u2019s chief executive, Demis Hassabis (himself a world-class chess player), observed that the program often made moves that would seem unthinkable to a human chess player. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t play like a human,\u201d he said, \u201cand it doesn\u2019t play like a program. It plays in a third, almost alien, way.\u201d It would be an overstatement to say that AlphaZero\u2019s capabilities spooked those who built it, but it clearly surprised some of them. It was, one (privately) noted later, a bit like putting your baby daughter to sleep one evening and finding her solving equations in the morning. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The advanced large language model\u2019s ability to reason is a feather in the cap for developers of generative AI technology In 2017, researchers at the British AI company DeepMind (now Google DeepMind) published an extraordinary paper describing how their new algorithm, AlphaZero, had taught itself to play a number of games to superhuman standards without …<\/p>\n

Caw-blimey, GPT-4 may be just an AI language parrot, but it\u2019s no birdbrain | John Naughton<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10849"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}