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RobleyTheron t1_iw2yy31 wrote

Reply to comment by ECEngineeringBE in The CEO of OpenAI had dropped hints that GPT-4, due in a few months, is such an upgrade from GPT-3 that it may seem to have passed The Turing Test by lughnasadh

I understand where you're coming from, but a tipping point does exist, where you go from armchair speculation, to an expert with honest understanding of a subject.

Think global warming science. Although there is a lot more consensus in that field as opposed to AGI.

With that said, people smarter than me do think we are closer to AGI. I'll conceit that my opinion is this article is hype, and generally speaking, people have nothing to worry about in the next 20-40 years.

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ECEngineeringBE t1_iw336q1 wrote

I'm glad that we could come to see eye to eye on this one. Though, I personally didn't find the article to be spreading the "AGI is here!" type of hype. They even said that the Turing test is considered outdated in the article. The article did hype me up, but more in a "holy shit let's see what sort of capabilities it'll have" type of way, and these models can be used to help on all sorts of projects, so they have utility.

I personally slightly disagree with those timelines, but since you said that it's your opinion, I don't have any issues with that. Of course, we could go into actually discussing our personal opinions, but that would be a bit steering away from the purpose of my original comment, so I think that we can leave it at that. Cheers!

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