Ask HN: Why are current LLMs not considered AGI?

Re:Ask HN: Why are current LLMs not considered AGI? by Someone on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @10:12AM (#37915367)

> At this point the thing holding ChatGPT back from universally-accepted "AGI" label is its few remaining sub-human skillsets

How do we know there are a few remaining ones to reach AGI and not zillions? How do we know adding “memory” is sufficient for it to acquire them?

I think the answers to those questions are “we don’t have the faintest idea” and “we know it won’t be enough”.

As to the latter, one thing LLMs cannot do that we think is essential for human intelligence is to think logically. They can regurgitate logic from memory, but they can’t come up with correct original ideas, unless by accident.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are current LLMs not considered AGI? by latexr on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @10:33AM (#37915733)

Just like self-driving cars, we’re likely to hear people say “AGI is just around the corner” for an unreasonable amount of time.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are current LLMs not considered AGI? by beanbean01 on Thursday October 19, 2023 @10:36AM (#37943494)

I suspect that a great many of the people who say AGI is just around the corner and are giving <2030 timelines are saying that because they want it to be around the corner.

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