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irrational ◴[] 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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jedberg ◴[] No.42139186[source]
Whether self awareness is a requirement for AGI definitely gets more into the Philosophy department than the Computer Science department. I'm not sure everyone even agrees on what AGI is, but a common test is "can it do what humans can".

For example, in this article it says it can't do coding exercises outside the training set. That would definitely be on the "AGI checklist". Basically doing anything that is outside of the training set would be on that list.

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olalonde ◴[] No.42141257[source]
I feel the test for AGI should be more like: "go find a job and earn money" or "start a profitable business" or "pick a bachelor degree and complete it", etc.
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1. rodgerd ◴[] No.42141334[source]
An LLM doing crypto spam/scamming has been making money by tricking Marc Andressen into boosting it. So to the degree that "scamming gullible billionaires and their fans" is a job, that's been done.
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2. rsanek ◴[] No.42141411[source]
source? didn't find anything online about this.
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3. olalonde ◴[] No.42141664[source]
That story was a bit blown out of proportion. He gave a research grant to the bot's creator: https://x.com/pmarca/status/1846374466101944629
4. rodgerd ◴[] No.42230225[source]
Goatseus Maximus is what you're after.