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Comment by avaer

1 day ago

If AGI is ever going to happen, then it's definitionally a precursor to it.

So I'm not really sure how to parse your statement.

I’m not sure I follow. What if LLMs are helpful but not useful to AGI, but some other technology is? Seems likely.

  • The comment wasn't referencing LLMs, but generative AI.

    Even then, given the deep impact of LLMs and how many people are using them already, it's a stretch to say LLMs will have no effect on the development of AGI.

    I think it's pretty obvious that AGI requires something more than LLMs, but I think it's equally obvious LLMs will have been involved in its development somewhere, even if just a stepping stone. So, a "precursor".