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Sparks of AGI: early experiments with GPT-4
Sebastien Bubeck presents the Sparks of AGI paper at MIT, showing early experiments with GPT-4 across many domains and asking whether artificial intelligence has arrived. It includes the TikZ unicorn example.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as a thought-provoking talk from a researcher with early GPT-4 access, especially for the unicorn degrading under safety tuning.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Sebastien Bubeck
- Topic
- gpt-4 capabilities
- Format
- lecture
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 7
- HN mentions in dataset
- 20
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2023–2026
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If you (or anyone else is) interested in the topic, I'd highly recommend giving some of these a look: Bubeck, Sébastien, Varun Chandrasekaran, Ronen Eldan, Johannes Gehrke, Eric Horvitz, Ece Kamar, Peter Lee, et al. “Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments with GPT-4.” arXiv, …
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