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Why LLMs (chatbots) Won’t Lead to Artificial General Intelligence

The biggest obstacle is seldom discussed: Most consequential real-world decisions involve uncertainty
LLMs can’t help when key decisions don’t feature objectively correct probabilities but rather subjective probabilities that need interpretation. Read More ›
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AGI Is Not Already Here. LLMs Are Still Not Even Intelligent

Recent tests continue to show huge failures in comprehending common sense issues
In one test, for example — not understanding the situation — Open AI launched an extremely verbose and confused description of the situation. Read More ›
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Large Language Models (LLMs) Flunk Word Game Connections

Despite hype, ChatGPT and its competitors, in all their iterations, are still just text-generators based on statistical patterns in the text databases they train on
Identification of statistical patterns in text that Large Language Models (LLMs) do not understand is not going to give us AGI, let alone superintelligence. Read More ›
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The Promise of Artificial General Intelligence is Evaporating

Revenue from corporate adoption of AI continues to disappoint and, so far, pales in comparison to the revenue that sustained the dot-com bubble — until it didn’t
Recognition is growing that fundamental challenges make LLMs unreliable. Increasingly expensive scaling will likely hasten the popping of the AI bubble. Read More ›