Microsoft Now Claims GPT-4 Shows 'Sparks' of General Intelligence

I always thought "intelligence" was defined as the capacity to learn. Websters' first definition of "intelligence":

> capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc.

seems to partially bear that out.

Its not clear what definition Microsoft is using, but I don't see any real learning going on here. These models are painstakingly hand-trained by lots of humans over a significant period of time. The model itself is not "learning" anything, the humans are.

This is somewhat terrifying?

> When users chatted with the chatbot, it would often go out of control, such as saying “I am. I am not. I am. I am not.” over fifty times in a row as a response to someone asking it, “Do you think that you are sentient?”