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> However, a word calculator is precisely the tool we were missing to be able to create AGI

This seems like the kind of step that the person above you was complaining about.

The "emergent" features of LLMs, or LLMs even being a step in the direction of AGI is entirely unproven so far. They are however powerful enough that they spark the imagination and hypothesis of tons of amateur futurists (and many financial backers of such proyects)



>The "emergent" features of LLMs, or LLMs even being a step in the direction of AGI is entirely unproven so far. They are however powerful enough that they spark the imagination and hypothesis of tons of amateur futurists (and many financial backers of such proyects)

That's exactly what I was saying, that it's a mistake to ever think of LLMs as AI. They are the prefrontal cortex. The I/O mechanism. But we still need the spark of agency. The soul if you will. Point being that we can actually work on that for real now, since the language part has been handled.




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