At this point, we really can't say if GPT-4 has any level of understanding or really what understanding would even mean for a computer. Ellie Pavlak: It's not as though the two extremes are like complete smoke and mirrors and human intelligence. There's a lot of places for things in between to be more intelligent than the systems we've had," she says.
AI has the potential to impact our society in dramatic ways, but researchers can’t explain precisely how it works or how it might evolve. Will they ever understand it?
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