Letting models interact with systems outside their sanbox brings about some incredible applications. These applications truly seem to have the potential to deeply change entire professions.
All that said, I wonder if GPT4 had been integrated with the same tools, would it've been any less capable?
It sure could give you a search prompt for Google if you asked it to. Back then you had to copy and paste that search prompt yourself. Today o3 can do it on its own. Cool! Does it imply though o3 is any closer to AGI than GPT4?
Models gaining access to external tools, however impressive from all the applications standpoint, feels like lateral movement not a step towards the AGI.
On the other hand, a model remaining isolated in its sandbox while actually learning to reason about that puzzle (assuming it's not present in the training data) would give off that feeling the AGI vibes.
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