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Re:AI 'godfather' LeCun has 'zero concerns' about human exti... by autuni on Monday October 05, 2026 @02:56AM (#49961510)
In the past 4 years the definition of what AGI would even be has been changed so many times that new marketing claims fit the description that the term itself no longer has any meaning.

However, it is reasonable to assume that the current architecture will just not be it. It works well for certain problems, and falls apart for several others.

Unrelated to your comment, more a general comment on the online discourse:

What I don't understand is why people get so defensive about and offended by the thought that more progress in the basics of the approaches could be needed. That doesn't change the performance of LLMs now, and it also doesn't change what could be possible in the future.

Why are people so deeply and personally invested in the current state of the art?

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Re:AI 'godfather' LeCun has 'zero concerns' about human exti... by kosh2 on Monday October 05, 2026 @03:20PM (#49969225)
> It works well for certain problems, and falls apart for several others.

Which one does it fall apart?

I am not personally invested in the LLM design at all, I just don't see how you can say that an approach will not solve X when we still see an increasing rate of improvement, not even a slowing of improvement.

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