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Capabilities of state-of-the-art AI, 2023
This is a list of some noteworthy capabilities of current state-of-the-art AI in various categories. Last major update 2/27/2023, last minor update 7/4/2023.
Games
In 2017, AlphaZero learned to play Chess, Shogi, and Go better than the best human players after less than 8 hours of training each, starting with no domain knowledge or examples of human play.
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In 2020, MuZero also learned to play Chess, Shogi, and Go better than the best human players with no domain knowledge or examples of human play, and additionally without initially knowing the rules of the games.
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In 2022, machine learning was used to discover adversarial strategies that humans can use to defeat the best Go AI
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In 2020, Agent57 learned to play all 57 Atari games above average human level.
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In 2021, EfficientZero, a variation of MuZero, learned to play 26 Atari games at 109% of median human performance after only 2 hours of gameplay.
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In 2019, Pluribus won a game of Texas Hold’Em against 5 professional poker players. Pluribus was trained using self-play, starting with no human data or domain knowledge, and using the equivalent of $150 in compute.
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In 2019, OpenAI Five defeated a professional Dota 2 team twice in 2019.
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In 2019, OpenAI Five defeated 99.4% of Dota 2 players in public matches.
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In 2019, AlphaStar reached Grandmaster level in Starcraft, playing with the same constraints as a human player (viewing the world through a camera, restricted clickrate).
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DreamerV3 is a general algorithm from 2023 that can learn to play a variety of games without human data, and is able to collect diamonds in Minecraft.
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CICERO, from 2022, can play Diplomacy, a game that involves communicating and coordinating with other players. Cicero ranked in the top 10% of players who had played more than one game on webDiplomacy.net.
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In 2022, DeepNash won 84% of Stratego games against the top expert human players on Gravon games.
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Language
ChatGPT is a chatbot from 2022, trained on GPT-3.5. It can write poetry, act out characters, answer questions, and more.
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Sample output from ChatGPT. A demo is available at chat.openai.com
LaMDA is a chatbot from 2022 that was evaluated by human crowdworkers to score 92.9% for “sensibleness” (compared to 100% for human crowdoworker-generated dialogue), 79% for “specificity” (compared to 80% for human crowdworker-generated dialogue), and 25.7% for “interestingness” (compared to 19% for human crowdworker-generated dialogue, although the authors note that the human crowdworkers may have not been trying to write interesting dialogue).
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Sample output from LaMDA. A demo is available at aitestkitchen.withgoogle.com but only for chatting with a tennis ball character about dogs
PaLM, a language model from 2022, surpassed average human performance on BIG-bench, “a collaborative benchmark aimed at producing challenging tasks for large language models.”
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PaLM correctly answered 58% of the questions in GMS8K, a dataset of elementary school level math word problems.12
PaLM-Coder wrote code that correctly solved programming problems in the HumanEval dataset 36% of the time. When given 100 tries for each problem, the model solved them 88.4% of the time.12
PaLM-Coder successfully repaired 82.1% of the broken code in the DeepFix dataset.12
PaLM-Coder successfully translated 55.1% of C++ programs in the Transcoder dataset to Python.12
As of 2020, Google Translate supported over 100 languages. When translating from other languages into English, its translations received BLEU scores ranging from around 0.15 to 0.53, depending on the language. BLEU score is based on the similarity of a translation to one created by a human translator, and ranges from 0 to 1, where a score of 1 indicates output identical to a human translator.
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Elicit is an AI research assistant from 2022 that, given a research question, can find relevant papers and summarize the findings of the top four papers.
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In 2022, Ithaca restored the missing text in ancient Greek inscriptions with 62% accuracy.
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Images
DenseCap can identify and describe objects in an image.
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Example of DenseCap analyzing and captioning an image
Sensetime is a facial recognition system from 2014 that surpassed average human performance in accurately labeling faces in a large dataset of images.
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LipNet is a lip-reading system from 2016 that reached superhuman performance in lip-reading.
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AI systems created by Google have reached human-level performance in some tasks related to analyzing medical imaging.
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CLIP, from 2021, can create a text description of an image.
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DALL-E 2, from 2022, can create images from text descriptions.
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Cherrypicked DALL-E 2 output with the prompt “Van Gogh painting of a researcher getting distracted from his work by extremely interesting artwork on his laptop screen, highly detailed.” DALL-E 2 is available to use at openai.com/dall-e-2
Muse can also generate images from text descriptions, more efficiently than other models such as DALL-E 2.
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DeepFaceLab, from 2020, can swap a face in a video with another person’s face (“deepfakes”).
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Generative adversarial networks such as StyleGAN2, from 2019, can be trained to create realistic images of something within a certain category, such as human faces.
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This person does not exist. A demo of StyleGAN2 trained on human faces is available at this-person-does-not-exist.com
Audio
Many models can read text with a human-like voice. Tacotron 2, from 2017, generated voice samples that received a mean opinion score of 4.53/5 compared to 4.58/5 for professionally recorded human speech.
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Automatic speech recognition systems can transcribe recordings of human speech. Whisper, from 2022, is able to transcribe recordings with an accuracy close to that of professional human transcribers.
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Jukebox, from 2020, can generate samples of music with a provided genre, artist, and lyrics as input.
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AudioLM, from 2022, creates predicted “continuations” of an audio input.
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MusicLM, from 2022, creates samples of music based on a text caption.
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Models such as Deep Voice 3, from 2018, can imitate a human voice based on a few samples of recorded speech.
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Recent models such as Koe can take a recorded voice sample and change it into another voice.
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Robotics
Although they are prone to occasional mistakes, self-driving cars are able to drive with human supervision.
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In 2021, an AI-piloted drone won a race against drones piloted by human experts.
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Atlas, a humanoid robot, can walk, run, and perform parkour moves such as backflips.
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A robot made by OpenAI in 2019 can solve a rubik’s cube with one human-like hand.
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In 2022, a robot successfully performed laparoscopic surgery on four pigs, without human assistance.
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Biology
Given a sequence of amino acids, AlphaFold 2, from 2022, can predict a 3d model of the protein that they make up.
40) In CASP14 (Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction), AlphaFold 2’s predicted structures had a “median backbone accuracy of 0.96 Å r.m.s.d.95 (Cα root-mean-square deviation at 95% residue coverage) (95% confidence interval = 0.85–1.16 Å).”
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In 2022 a model was able to predict the effect of a molecule on levels of an enzyme in humans and find molecules that inhibit a particular enzyme.
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MinD-Vis, from 2022, can decode a subject’s brain activity to reconstruct an image that has some of the details and features of the image the subject is looking at.
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