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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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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 ›