Ethan Mollick: 'Sparks of AGI' paper deserves credit from GPT-4 to GPT-6
emollick · x · 2026-09-06
Ethan Mollick revisits the March 2023 paper 'Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4', arguing it was remarkably prescient: despite heavy pushback at the time, its qualitative experiments sensed where LLM capabilities were heading — a trajectory now visible from GPT-4 to GPT-6. He says it deserves retrospective credit.
Related event: Ethan Mollick Revisits 'Sparks of AGI': GPT-4's Promise Vindicated(2 posts)→
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