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by exe34 369 days ago
> In both cases you're adding another layer to an existing algorithm in order to make it more effective. Doesn't make either AGI.

Yet. The human mind is a big bag of tricks. If the creators of AI can enumerate a large enough list of capabilities and implement those, then the product can be as good as 90% of humans, but at a fraction of the cost and a billion times the speed - then it doesn't matter if it's AGI or not. It will have economic consequences.
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AnimalMuppet 368 days ago
And make them work together. It's not just having a big bag of tricks; it's also knowing which trick to pull out when. (And that may just be pulling out a trick, trying it, and knowing when the results aren't good enough, and so trying a different one.)

The observant will note that the word "knowing" kept appearing in the previous paragraph. Can that knowing also be reduced to LLM-like tricks? Or is it an additional step?

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exe34 368 days ago
It's sufficient to appear to know. My washing machine "knows" when my clothes are dry.
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