[hackinthebochs]

>And we pulled ourselves out of this nonsense by the bootstraps.

Human progress was promoted by having to interact with a physical world that anchored our ramblings and gave us a reward function for coherence and cooperation. LLMs would need some analogous anchoring for it to progress beyond incoherent babble.

[scotty79]

True, but LLMs got anchored to reality because we are using them in real world tasks and this connection will only grow richer, wider and faster.