Compared to the lofty benchmark of human-level intelligence, AI chatbots still have a long way to go.
Sure the industry has made remarkable progress in beefing them up to generate seemingly human-level sentences, but in measures of reasoning and productivity, AI has its work cut out.
But how do today’s large language models stack up against humans when it comes to learning to speak? Not any better, it turns out.
In a breakdown of the AI teaching process, MIT Technology Review interviewed a number of experts on large language model efficiency. It turns out that even infants are much better students of human language than today’s AI chatbots, and — though it might not feel like it for some parents — much more efficient.
