How close is GPT-3 to Artificial General Intelligence?

Bruce H. Cottman, Ph.D.
Towards Data Science
7 min readJun 14, 2021

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GPT-3 is a good start for human-like natural language performance. Perhaps a better analogy might be the “Homo habilis” [1] of Artificial General Intelligence Natural Language.

Vortex of language reasoning. Photo by USGS on Unsplash

The Homo habilis species distinguish itself from the earlier Australopithecus group with a slightly larger braincase and smaller face and teeth. However, the Homo habilis species retained some…

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