From: The New York Times
Scientists Use A.I. to Mimic the Mind, Warts and All
Companies like OpenAI and Meta are in a race to make something they like to call artificial general intelligence. But for all the money being spent on it, A.G.I. has no settled definition. It’s more of an aspiration to create something indistinguishable from the human mind.
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Some experts gave Centaur high marks. “It’s pretty impressive,” said Russ Poldrack, a cognitive scientist at Stanford University who was not involved in the study. “This is really the first model that can do all these types of tasks in a way that’s just like a human subject.”
Ilia Sucholutsky, a computer scientist at New York University, was struck by how well Centaur performed. “Centaur does significantly better than classical cognitive models,” he said.
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