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I'm no expert, but reading/listening to stuff by Ed Zitron and Paris Marx, I'm extremely skeptical that anything remotely resembling AGI will be made in my lifetime, these LLMs are mostly a party trick that can't replicate good work or judgement. If anything, these techbros are fanning the flames of the hype simply to get more funding.
The whole AGI discussion is deeply misguided in my opinion. What we'll actually see is a gradual increase in capabilities of AI system across different domains. While LLMs get most of the attention right now, they're far from the only technique we know about, and people are already combining many different approaches together. For example, you have stuff like neurosymbolic systems where LLMs are used for classifying noisy input data, and a symbolic logic engine is used to reason about it. We're also seeing a move towards world models as the basis for reasoning systems, and I think that's where you start getting the ability to do genuine judgements. A system which has an internal persistent model of the world can reason about it in a similar way to a human.
In my opinion, it is highly likely we will be seeing automation replacing much of the labour that can only be done by humans within a few decades. However, I also expect that this will be happening in China where there's actual industry to automate.
I very much agree with the points Alibaba cloud founder makes in this interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0PaVrpFD14
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