Comment on What If There’s No AGI?

Corelli_III@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Reality doesn’t matter as long as line goes up.

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• douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I mean sure, yeah, it’s not real now.

  Does that mean it will never be real? No, absolutely not. It’s not theoretically impossible. It’s quite practically possible, and we inch that way slowly, but by bit, every year.

  It’s like saying self-driving cars are impossible in the '90s. They aren’t impossible. You just don’t have a solution for them now, but there’s nothing about them that makes it impossible, just our current technology. And then look it today, we have actual limited self-driving capabilities, and completely autonomous driverless vehicles in certain geographies.

  It’s definitely going to happen. It’s just not happening right now.

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  • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    AGI being possible (potentially even inevitable) doesn’t mean that AGI based on LLMs is possible, and it’s LLMs that investors have bet on. It’s been pretty obvious for a while that certain problems that LLMs have aren’t getting better as models get larger, so there are no grounds to expect that just making models larger is the answer to AGI. It’s pretty reasonable to extrapolate that to say LLM-based AGI is impossible, and that’s what the article’s discussing.

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    • douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean you just set up a straw man of llms which I very specifically did not mention .

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      • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You not mentioning LLMs doesn’t mean the post you were replying to wasn’t talking about LLM-based AGI. If someone responds to an article about the obvious improbability of LLM-based AGI with a comment about the obviously make-believe genie, the only obviously make-believe genie they could be referring to is the one from the article. If they’re referring to something outside the article, there’s nothing more to suggest it’s non-LLM-based AGI than there is Robin Williams’ character from Aladdin.

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  • Corelli_III@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No

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    • douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is the kind of intelligent conversation I left Reddit for lack of. Happy to see that Lemmy is picking up the slack.

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