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  • Since about 2020, AI has largely focused on training bigger and better models
  • Large language models (LLMs) ballooned from millions of parameters to trillions
  • This proved effective: The largest version of OpenAI’s GPT-3, released in 2020, correctly answered just 43.9 percent of questions on a popular knowledge-and-reasoning benchmark
  • Just four years later, GPT-4o reached a score of 88.7 percent on the same exam, effectively matching those of human experts.Advanced AI labs are still training ev
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Since about 2020, AI has largely focused on training bigger and better models. Large language models (LLMs) ballooned from millions of parameters to trillions. This proved effective: The largest version of OpenAI’s GPT-3, released in 2020, correctly answered just 43.9 percent of questions on a popular knowledge-and-reasoning benchmark. Just four years later, GPT-4o reached a score of 88.7 percent on the same exam, effectively matching those of human experts.Advanced AI labs are still training ev

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