Comment by subjectivationx

I think at some point we will stop pretending we have real AI. We have a breakthrough in natural language processing but LLMs are much closer to Microsoft Word than something as fantastical as "AGI". We don't blame Microsoft Word for not having a model of what is being typed in. It would be great if Microsoft Word could model the world and just do all the work for us but it is a science fiction fantasy. To me, LLMs in practice are largely massively compute inefficient search engines plus really good language disambiguation. Useful, but we have actually made no progress at all towards "real" AI. This is especially obvious if you ditch "AI" and call it artificial understanding. We have nothing.