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Stanford’s Michal Kosinski says OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 have mastered what’s known as ‘theory of mind’

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Michal Kosinski says large language models like OpenAI ’s have crossed a border and are using techniques analogous to actual thought, once considered solely the realm of flesh-and-blood people (or at least mammals) Kosinski is concerned that we’re not really prepared for LLMs that understand the way humans think.

He sees his work as a natural outgrowth of his earlier dive into Facebook Likes .

AI 's GPT-4 might have reached into its vast training materials to find the answers.

David Gergen says the tests Kosinski used were also deployed in classic experiments cited in scientific papers more than 11,000 times.

Gergen : Theory of Mind is “unlikely to be the pinnacle of what neural networks can achieve in this universe”.

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