Comment by ninetyninenine

I agree agi wont solve national security but saying this isn’t intelligence is false.

This is ai and trend lines point to an intelligence that matches or barely exceeds human intellect in the future.

You’re part of a trend of people in denial. When LLMs first came out there were hordes of people on HN claiming it was just a stochastic parrot and LLMs displayed zero intellectual ability. It is now abundantly clear that this not true.

We don’t fully understand LLMs. That’s why gains like COT are just black box adjustments that come from changing external configurations. We have no way to read the contents of the black box and make adjustments off of it. Yet idiots like you can make such vast and hard claims when nobody really fully understands these things. You’re delusional.

I agree that LLMs won’t allow us to make some super weapon to give us some edge in national security.