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OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI

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625 points lukebennett | 2 comments | 13 Nov 24 13:28 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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irrational ◴[14 Nov 24 18:03 UTC] No.42139106[source]▶
> The AGI bubble is bursting a little bit

I'm surprised that any of these companies consider what they are working on to be Artificial General Intelligences. I'm probably wrong, but my impression was AGI meant the AI is self aware like a human. An LLM hardly seems like something that will lead to self-awareness.

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1. yodsanklai ◴[14 Nov 24 19:10 UTC] No.42139950[source]▶
It's a marketing gimmick, I don't think engineers working on these tools believe they work on AGI (or they mean something else than self-awareness). I used to be a bit annoyed with this trend, but now that I work in such a company I'm more cynical. If that helps to make my stocks rise, they can call LLMs anything they like. I suppose people who own much more stock than I do are even more eager to mislead the public.
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2. WhyOhWhyQ ◴[14 Nov 24 19:27 UTC] No.42140133[source]▶
I appreciate your authentically cynical attitude.