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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by gavinray on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:31PM (#50342333)
Based on our current understanding of LLM's, it shouldn't be.

This sort of throws a wrench in the whole "stochastic parrot" idea...

I am not surprised, though I expect many to be.

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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by user43928 on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:56PM (#50342737)
Yes, this is hardly a shocker to anyone who used the latest models to convert/optimize AI models.

The other day I was thinking about the definition of AGI.

I was asking myself the question that when there is no form of data that I can think of throwing into Claude Code and have it not come up with some sort of intelligent answer about it, is that already general intelligence?

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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by marktl on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:00PM (#50343669)
IMO yes
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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by rsalus on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:15PM (#50343866)
general knowledge perhaps, but certainly not intelligence in any traditional sense
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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by cman1444 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @12:57AM (#50348583)
Why not? What is the differentiator?
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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by dist-epoch on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:19PM (#50343909)
And yet you ask it 3 times to not do a thing, and it does it in a 4th way. A human doesn't fail in this way. And I'm not talking about memory here, single context.

So yeah, it can do everything, but fails in trivial ways around the doing part.

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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by whattheheckheck on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:54PM (#50344377)
Others have though much deeper about this its all documented in academic papers and books
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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by root_axis on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:44PM (#50346445)
So if that's AGI then what should we call the the thing that can learn from its environment unsupervised like a human or a dog.
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