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dcchambers ◴[] No.43720006[source]
And in 30 years it will be another 30 years away.

LLMs are so incredibly useful and powerful but they will NEVER be AGI. I actually wonder if the success of (and subsequent obsession with) LLMs is putting true AGI further out of reach. All that these AI companies see are the $$$. When the biggest "AI Research Labs" like OpenAI shifted to product-izing their LLM offerings I think the writing was on the wall that they don't actually care about finding AGI.

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thomasahle ◴[] No.43720042[source]
People will keep improving LLMs, and by the time they are AGI (less than 30 years), you will say, "Well, these are no longer LLMs."
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dcchambers ◴[] No.43720202[source]
Will LLMs approach something that appears to be AGI? Maybe. Probably. They're already "better" than humans in many use cases.

LLMs/GPTs are essentially "just" statistical models. At this point the argument becomes more about philosophy than science. What is "intelligence?"

If an LLM can do something truly novel with no human prompting, with no directive other than something it has created for itself - then I guess we can call that intelligence.

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kadushka ◴[] No.43720232[source]
How many people do you know who are capable of doing something truly novel? Definitely not me, I'm just an average phd doing average research.
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dcchambers ◴[] No.43720255[source]
Literally every single person I know that is capable of holding a pen or typing on a keyboard can create something new.
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kadushka ◴[] No.43720278[source]
Something new != truly novel. ChatGPT creates something new every time I ask it a question.
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dcchambers ◴[] No.43720348[source]
adjective: novel

definition: new or unusual in an interesting way.

ChatGPT can create new things, sure, but it does so at your directive. It doesn't do that because it wants to which gets back to the other part of my answer.

When an LLM can create something without human prompting or directive, then we can call that intelligence.

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kadushka ◴[] No.43721360[source]
What does intelligence have to do with having desires or goals? An amoeba can do stuff on its own but it's not intelligent. I can imagine a god-like intelligence that is a billion times smarter and more capable than any human in every way, and it could just sit idle forever without any motivation to do anything.
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1. olyjohn ◴[] No.43722721[source]
Does the amoeba does make choices?
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2. harshitaneja ◴[] No.43727087[source]
Do you make that choice? Did I?