The Fallacy of Artificial General Intelligence: Microsoft's Recognition of the Limits of LLMs
Microsoft released a research work last week [1] that claims that GPT-4 capabilities can be viewed as an early version of Artificial General Intelligence. The authors states that " the breadth and depth of GPT -4's capabilities, we believe that it could reasonably be viewed as an early (yet still incomplete) version of an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system. " The researchers adopted the following definition of human Intelligence to reach this conclusion: " a very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience. ". According to the same paper, the definition was proposed in 1994 by a group of psychologists. Interestingly, the authors of the paper [1] acknowledges that the definition of human intelligence is somehow restrictive. They also acknowledge that some components of this definition are currently missing