[dham]

AGI? My guy, it's a text predictor slot machine. Very useful tool but will never be AGI.

[avmich]

"I can state flatly that heavier than air flying machines are impossible. — Lord Kelvin, 1895"

I'm sure this doesn't apply to you since you're not Lord Kelvin. On the other hand, people like Peter Norvig state in a popular AI textbook that, for example, they don't know why similar concepts appear close by in the vector space, so maybe you just know something other people don't.

[kapluni]

Said the biological text predictor…

[jtwaleson]

Map problems to slot machines, guess enough slots and you're indistinguishable from GI.

[0_____0]

I'm not taking a position here but the person you're replying to stated that Anthropic are working on AGI, not that their current LLM offering will evolve into AGI.

[dham]

Ok that's different then. LLM, by definition, can't be AGI. But AGI can be AGI with another technology.

[chpatrick]

2021 called, they want their uninformed metaphor back.

[dham]

Oh sorry: *text predictor that feeds text back into text predictor

[seizethecheese]

He said “from a company working on AGI” which is true. Not to mention that the sarcastic nature of your comment is off putting

[dentalnanobot]

Pretty rich coming from an AGI that’s running on a bowlful of mildly electrified meat. Emergent properties, my guy.

[direwolf20]

GPT–2 was AGI