142. Augmentation is on the road to Automation

Steps towards autonomy

Can we breach Moravec’s Paradox?

The last 12 months have been a bit crazy in the world of artificial intelligence. The public availability of Large Language Models like ChatGPT, Bard, and others has created massive excitement and anxiety around the upsides of and potential downsides of this new breakthrough technology.

In March 2023, OpenAI published a report which showed how GPT 3.5 and GPT4 managed to ace a bunch of exams designed for humans. Given the pace of change, I wouldn’t be surprised if today’s chart has a large number of exams, and the green bars are higher.

(Being a non-native English speaker, I have to admit I was a bit pissed off when GPT could score reasonably well on the GRE verbal exam (>60%), something which I had struggled with when I gave my GRE exams before coming to the United States.

Image source: OpenAI’s “GPT 4.0” article

It would be easy to imagine that if Large Language Models can clear complicated examples like the law exam, can automation of “low-skilled” tasks…