Caw-blimey, GPT-4 may be just an AI language parrot, but it’s no birdbrain | John Naughton

The advanced large language model’s ability to reason is a feather in the cap for developers of generative AI technologyIn 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, “achieve, tabula rasa, superhuman performance in many challenging domains. Starting fr