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Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Yep the current iteration is. But should we cross the threshold to full AGI… that’s either gonna be awesome or world ending. Not sure which.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Current LLMs cannot be AGI, no matter how big they are. The fundamental architecture just isn't right.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

You’re absolutely right. LLMs are good at faking language and sometimes not even great at that. Not sure why I got downvoted but oh well. But AGI will be game changing if it happens.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Based on what I've witnessed so far, people will play with their AGI units for a bit and then put them down to continue scrolling memes.

Which means it is neither awesome, nor world-ending, but just boring/business as usual.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

There are people way smarter than me that claim it will be a threshold and would likely grow exponentially after it’s crossed. I guess we won’t know for sure until it happens. I do agree most people get bored easily but if this thing is possible to think for itself without interaction it won’t matter if the humans get bored.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I know nothing about anything, but I unfoundedly believe we're still very far away from the computing power required for that. I think we still underestimate the power of biological brains.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Very likely. But 4 years ago I would have said we weren’t close to what these LLMs can do now so who knows.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

What makes you think there's a threshold?