Gary Marcus Yann LeCun describes LLMs as “an off-ramp on the road to AGI,” and I’m inclined to agree. LLMs themselves aren’t likely to “turn AGI.” Each generation of LLMs demonstrates the same fundamental flaws, even as they get better at hiding them.
But I also completely buy the “FOOM even without superintelligence” angle, as well as the argument that they’ll speed up AI research by an unpredictable amount.
Gary MarcusYann LeCun describes LLMs as “an off-ramp on the road to AGI,” and I’m inclined to agree. LLMs themselves aren’t likely to “turn AGI.” Each generation of LLMs demonstrates the same fundamental flaws, even as they get better at hiding them.But I also completely buy the “FOOM even without superintelligence” angle, as well as the argument that they’ll speed up AI research by an unpredictable amount.