In March 2023, a team of Microsoft researchers, including Microsoft’s chief scientific officer, AI pioneer Eric Horvitz, published a paper titled “Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments with GPT-4.” It caused quite a stir in the AI community and beyond, quickly becoming infamous. The paper claimed that GPT-4, the latest and most powerful language model developed by OpenAI, exhibited signs of general intelligence, or the ability to perform any intellectual task that a human can do.
