Comment on Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months agobecause, having coded them myself, I am under no illusions as to their capabilities. They are not magic. “just” some matrix multiplications that generate a probability distribution for the next token, which is then randomly sampled.
ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 2 months ago
You seem to be talking about LLMs now and I’m not. LLMs being a dead end is perfectly compatible with what I just said. We’ll just try a different approach next then. Even the fact of realizing they’re a dead end is yet another step towards AGI.
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
yeah, so that means that it’s not incremental improvement on what we have that we need. That will get us nowhere. We need a (as yet unknown) completely different approach. Which is the opposite of incremental improvement.
ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I didn’t say we need to improve on what we have. We just need to keep making better technology which we will keep doing unless we destroy ourselves first.