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by Swizec 1097 days ago
The biggest problem with AGI is definitional. How will we know when we see it?

Once that little detail gets solved, who’s to say that “refined LLM hooked up to tools and other specialized LLMs” won’t be it? Sure could be.

But it also could not be! AGI has been right around the corner my whole life and even longer. 50 years at least. Every new AI discovery is on the verge of AGI until a few years later it hits a wall. Research is hard like that.