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by skybrian 1187 days ago
When reading a paper, it's useful to ask, "okay, what did they actually do?"

In this case, they tried out an early version of GPT-4 on a bunch of tasks, and on some of them it succeeded pretty well, and in other cases it partially succeeded. But no particular task is explored in enough depth to test its limits are or get a hint at how it does it.

So I don't think it's a great paper. It's more like a great demo in the format of a paper, showing some hints of GPT-4's capabilities. Now that GPT-4 is available to others, hopefully other people will explore further.

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It reads a bit like promotional material. A bit of a letdown to find it was done by MSFT researchers.