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'Snake oil' keeps ringing in my mind. Those who keep insisting that LLMs are a step closer to AGI are selling the same snake oil, in my opinion.

Generative AI, regardless of its utility, is a step backward in the search for AGI. It has almost nothing in common with intelligence as we observe it in humans and animals. AGI will not be found under this lamppost. We need new models, new theories.

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I wonder if Gary's too young to remember Spinvox, 20 years ago in the early mobile phone boom, who claimed to have technology that could transcribe voice recordings (eg voicemail messages) to text,

and burned through $100m of investor cash

and, it turned out, had never made it past the "secret call-centre-style companies of human transcribers" stage...

Plus ca change!

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