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>How are they at human performance?

Because it performs at least average human level (mostly well above average) on basically every task it's given.

"Invest something new" is a nonsensical benchmark for human level intelligence. The vast majority of people have never and will never invent anything new.

If your general intelligence test can't be passed by a good chunk of humanity then it's not a general intelligence test unless you want to say most people aren't generally intelligent.




Yeah these intelligence tests are not very good.

I would argue some programmers do in fact invent something new. Not all of them, but some. Perhaps 10%.

Second the point is not whether everyone is by profession an inventor but whether most people can be inventors. And to a degree they can be. I think you underestimate that by a large margin.

You can lock people in a room and give them a problem to solve and they will invent a lot if they have the time to do it. GPT will invent nothing right now. It‘s not there yet.


>Yeah these intelligence tests are not very good.

Lol Okay

>And to a degree they can be. I think you underestimate that by a large margin.

Do i? Because i'm not the one making unverifiable claims here.

>You can lock people in a room and give them a problem to solve and they will invent a lot if they have the time to do it.

If you say so


> Not all of them, but some. Perhaps 10%.

Just listen to what you're saying:

- GPT isn't at human level because GPT isn't able to invent something new

- Not all programmers invent something new, but some. Perhaps 10%

I'm pretty sure this implies literally that 90% programmers aren't human level.

The lengths to which people are willing to go to dismiss GPT's abilities is mind boggling to me.


> Because it performs at least average human level (mostly well above average) on basically every task it's given.

No, GPT4 fails at some very basic tasks. It can't count letters passed 15.


It doesn't see words.




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