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'The most stunning demo I've ever seen in my life': ChatGPT impressed Bill Gates by acing AP Bio exam::ChatGPT's AP Biology score demonstrates near human-level competency, according to tech billionaire Bill Gates.

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[–] Zirconium 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Catch me surprised. A learning algorithm that may have tons of AP bio study material can ace the AP bio exam? Crazy...

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sure, it is obvious now, but less than a year ago barely anyone suspected that we had LLM more advanced than the Google assistant and Siri, let alone one capable of earning a medical degree.

[–] AliasAKA 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Passing AP bio is a long way off from an MD, it’s just intro college bio. Still, the first part of the comment is fair, I think

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

oh I see, my bad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

LLM would tank in rounds.

[–] Rootiest 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is the problem with standardized testing, it just doesn't challenge our AI students and forces trainers to focus on the exam questions rather than an understanding of the material

[–] eager_eagle 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, the demo actually took place a year ago when GPT was smart. That makes more sense.

[–] dulce_3t_decorum_3st 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gpt-4 helped me prepare my client for cross examination last week.

It predicted ten key questions he would likely be asked, and specified what he should say and what he mustn't say, based on the way courts have decided cases historically in similar contractual disputes.

All of those questions came up. So yeah, GPT-4 is still smart.

[–] Rough_N_Ready -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You think all those questions came up because the other side is also using chatGPT?

[–] dulce_3t_decorum_3st 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think it's more likely the result of working through 200 prompts in five different chats using 5000-word templates and uploading hundreds of pages of pleadings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's great for doing tasks like these, yup.

[–] Techmaster 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not like ChatGPT actually knows these things. It's essentially a search engine. So if it aces an AP biology exam, it basically looked up the answers. It does a great job of making sense of data and putting it all together, but don't be fooled into thinking that it knows everything about everything.

[–] hark 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sometimes that's all that's needed. Students, for example, often cram for an exam, regurgitate what they've memorized, and then promptly forget everything after the exam.

[–] Techmaster 1 points 1 year ago

But what ChatGPT does is more like an open book test, rather than cramming before a test.