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Re:Ask HN: Why are current LLMs not considered AGI? by philippta on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @07:22AM (#37913280)
Thanks a lot for that detailed explanation. That makes perfect sense.

I wonder if all these additional capabilities can be bolted onto existing LLMs or need another iteration to the transformer architecture plus retraining.

Re:Ask HN: Why are current LLMs not considered AGI? by ilaksh on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @08:22AM (#37913860)
LLMs are not the end of AI research. See LMM (large multimodal model), cognitive architecture, spiking neural networks, I-JEPA, etc. There are going to be multiple totally different types of AI that may be called be AGI, depending on who you ask.

For emotions, see Pei Wang's research.

Re:Ask HN: Why are current LLMs not considered AGI? by latexr on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @10:26AM (#37915625)
> That makes perfect sense.

On the contrary, it has multiple glaring flaws. When you consider that you can ask an LLM one question and get a nonsensical answer, saying that stopping them from forgetting will bring them closer to “universally-accepted” AGI has no basis in reality. Humans can’t even universally agree that the Earth is not flat, it is a pipe dream to think LLMs will bring any consensus in a few months.

Another posts points out other issues with the answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37915367