The paper has been met with skepticism at a time whenconcerns about AI are rising.
“Human-level reasoning is something else altogether.
Digital calculators approached (and surpassed) human-level math performance a long time ago.
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However, I doubt that their calculations function like what most humans do when they do the math.”
That’s why the new paper by Microsoft researchers surprised many observers.
Human-level performance is one thing.
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Human-level reasoning is something else altogether.
Mimicry rather than reasoning is a better way to describe how current AI chatbots operate, Byrd said.
Bachenheimer suggested asking generative AI to design a billboard.
“Unlike AI models, however, humans have the capacity to think beyond given constraints.
“It clearly will in some domains,” Mousavizadeh said.
“In others, it will be superhuman, like in chess, fault detection, or writing code.
For now, that’s not really present.”
