Comment by ACCount37
19 hours ago
Were you not paying attention? Modern LLMs are incredibly general AIs, and nearing human or superhuman performance in many areas. And the tech just keeps advancing.
If you don't see "AGI is possible", you aren't looking.
There is a very big difference between language generation and true intelligence.
"The ability to speak does not make you intelligent." - Qui Gon Jinn
Oh, funny that you say that.
Modern LLMs show empirically that the "difference" is fuzzy at best. You can try to draw a distinction. You can try to draw the lines in the sand and define "true intelligence" in a way that would include humans but exclude "false intelligence" of Mythos 5. An exercise in vanity, in my eyes.
Or you can go with "any sufficiently advanced language generation is indistinguishable from intelligence" and drop the matter. My advice is to do exactly that.
We used to think that if a computer could play chess, it would be intelligent. Maybe back then they were also people saying "stop trying to draw lines, just admit it's intelligent!!" Good thing we didn't listen to them.
The act of distinguishing between human intelligence and LLMs is what allows us to figure out how to make it better. There are still some deep limitations, and to ignore them is a mistake. That doesn't take away from how crazy good they are.
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