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AI Smarter Than A College Student

GPT-3 can reason about as well as a college student,
UCLA psychologists report

UCLA – People solve new problems readily without any special training or practice by comparing them to familiar problems and extending the solution to the new problem. That process, known as analogical reasoning, has long been thought to be a uniquely human ability.

But now people might have to make room for a new kid on the block.

Research by UCLA psychologists shows that, astonishingly, the artificial intelligence language model GPT-3 performs about as well as college undergraduates when asked to solve the sort of reasoning problems that typically appear on intelligence tests and standardized tests such as the SAT. The study is published in Nature Human Behaviour.

But the paper’s authors write that the study raises the question: Is GPT-3 mimicking human reasoning as a byproduct of its massive language training dataset or it is using a fundamentally new kind of cognitive process?

Without access to GPT-3’s inner workings — which are guarded by OpenAI, the company that created it — the UCLA scientists can’t say for sure how its reasoning abilities work. They also write that although GPT-3 performs far better than they expected at some reasoning tasks, the popular AI tool still fails spectacularly at others.

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h/t Jason

8 Comments on AI Smarter Than A College Student

  1. Artificial “Intelligence” Vs Artificial Ignorance (university induced)

    This will be better than midgets fighting in a 3 ft deep bathtub of jello !

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  2. my dog is smarter than a college student.

    He never questions his sex and doesn’t blame dogs with lighter fur for his troubles, and he CERTAINLY isn’t going to ACCEPT a Vegan diet, let alone DEMAND one…

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  3. It’s almost too painful to watch those “person on the street” interviews where college students are asked questions that we knew the answer to when I was in the 4th or 5th grade and they just have a blank stare on their face.

    I have seen videos of crows with better problem solving skills than most college age people!

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