[w1nk]

For a more informed opinion than folks on the internet, here's some work from Microsoft with early/internal access to gpt4: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712 . I don't think people close by these systems share the same dumb parrot sentiment at all.

[giobox]

I've never been sure what to make of that paper. It was published by Microsoft shortly after Microsoft's big deal with OpenAI and reads a lot like a marketing piece to me. Many of the observations didn't reproduce the same way once ChatGPT4 in public hands too. If nothing else, I'd prefer it come from a party who hadn't just signed a $13 billion dollar deal with OpenAI a few weeks prior with a view to using their products to sell more new products/features... It's somewhat self-serving for Microsoft to argue ChatGPT4 is super-awesome/sparks of AGI etc, regardless of validity of claims.