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Chatbots and the Pursuit of Artificial General Intelligence.

The article focuses on critiquing the perception that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT represent significant progress towards achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). It argues that despite their impressive ability to generate human-like text, chatbots lack genuine understanding and...

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Published in:Skeptic Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. 50 - 58
Main Author: KASSAN, PETER
Format: Article
Published: Skeptics Society 2024
Subjects:
Language models
ChatGPT
Artificial intelligence
Chatbots
Statistics
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