[jaffee]

Well... sure. But OpenAI and MSFT have gone to a lot of trouble to build up the mystique around GPT-4 by being secretive about its architecture and publishing papers with tantalizing phrases like "sparks of AGI" and so on. I think this type of thing provides a useful counterbalance.

[ramesh31]

>But OpenAI and MSFT have gone to a lot of trouble to build up the mystique around GPT-4 by being secretive about its architecture and publishing papers with tantalizing phrases like "sparks of AGI" and so on.

An LLM will never be AGI itself. They are word calculators. However, a word calculator is precisely the tool we were missing to be able to create AGI. I believe OpenAI will be left in the dust with this stuff, as federated agents built on open models connect and induce the singularity.

[Arkhaine_kupo]

> However, a word calculator is precisely the tool we were missing to be able to create AGI

This seems like the kind of step that the person above you was complaining about.

The "emergent" features of LLMs, or LLMs even being a step in the direction of AGI is entirely unproven so far. They are however powerful enough that they spark the imagination and hypothesis of tons of amateur futurists (and many financial backers of such proyects)

[ramesh31]

>The "emergent" features of LLMs, or LLMs even being a step in the direction of AGI is entirely unproven so far. They are however powerful enough that they spark the imagination and hypothesis of tons of amateur futurists (and many financial backers of such proyects)

That's exactly what I was saying, that it's a mistake to ever think of LLMs as AI. They are the prefrontal cortex. The I/O mechanism. But we still need the spark of agency. The soul if you will. Point being that we can actually work on that for real now, since the language part has been handled.