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"Sparks of AGI" paper retrospectively praised for LLM predictions

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Ethan Mollick has highlighted the "Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence" paper, originally published by Microsoft Research, as being remarkably prescient. Despite facing pushback at the time of its release, Mollick argues the paper accurately predicted the trajectory of Large Language Models through its qualitative experiments. He believes the paper deserves retrospective credit for its insights into the development of AI. AI

IMPACT Offers a retrospective perspective on early AI research and its predictive power for current LLM trends.

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"Sparks of AGI" paper retrospectively praised for LLM predictions

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  1. Bluesky Jetstream — AI desk TIER_1 English(EN) · emollick.bsky.social ·

    Sparks of AGI was a remarkably prescient paper that got a lot of pushback at the time, but absolutely sensed where the vibes were heading with LLMs based on a l

    Sparks of AGI was a remarkably prescient paper that got a lot of pushback at the time, but absolutely sensed where the vibes were heading with LLMs based on a lot of qualitative experiments. It deserves credit in retrospect. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

    LINKS microsoft.com/…/sparks-of-artificial-gene…

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