Comment by tim333

>AGI fantasy...

>I think it’s remarkable that what was until recently sci-fi fantasy has become a mainstream view in Silicon Valley.

Human like thinking by machines, which I think is what most people think of as AGI was not until recently a sci-fi fantasy.

It was dealt with by Turning of Turing test fame and the main founder of computer science, around 1950 and the idea of singularity in the tech sense came from John von Neumann who was fundamental to the John von Neumann architecture used as the basis of much computing. If you assume the brain is a biological computer and electronic computers get better in a Moore's law like way then a crossover is kind of inevitable.

Dismissing it as sci-fi fantasy seems a bit like dismissing a round as opposed to flat earth ideas in a similar way.

Which doesn't mean that LLMs are the answer and we should stick all the money into them. That's a different thing.