IEEE Spectrum article features Rodney Brooks, 2023 IEEE Founders Medal recipient, on GPT-4 and why Brooks thinks we should stop confusing performance with competence.
“Rapid and pivotal advances in technology have a way of unsettling people, because they can reverberate mercilessly, sometimes, through business, employment, and cultural spheres. And so it is with the current shock and awe over large language models, such as GPT-4 from OpenAI.”