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The Nuanced Reality of Language Model Progress

Navigating the Hype and Skepticism Around AI Advancement

The recent leak from an undisclosed source at OpenAI has sparked a flurry of headlines and speculation about the state of language model progress. While it would be easy to write a sensationalized story focusing on the "slowing down" of improvements, the reality is far more nuanced.

The article in question suggests that the next-generation OpenAI model, codenamed "Orion," is performing on par with GPT-4 in terms of intelligence and task-fulfillment abilities, even with only 20% of the training process completed. However, the final increase in quality is expected to be smaller compared to the leap between GPT-3 and GPT-4.

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