Opinion: These Apple researchers just showed that AI bots can’t think, and possibly never will


OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. When the problems incorporated clauses that might seem relevant but weren't, the models' performance plummeted. That was true of all the models, including versions of the GPT bots developed by OpenAI, Meta's Llama, Microsoft's Phi-3, Google's Gemma and several models developed by the French lab Mistral AI. — AFP

See if you can solve this arithmetic problem:

Oliver picks 44 kiwis on Friday. Then he picks 58 kiwis on Saturday. On Sunday, he picks double the number of kiwis he did on Friday, but five of them were a bit smaller than average. How many kiwis does Oliver have?

Uh-oh! Daily quota reached.


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