On Progress Toward AGI

[nsaspook]

"The most depressing reason to write for AI is that unlike most humans, AIs still read. They read a lot. They read everything. Whereas, aided by an AI no more advanced than the TikTok algorithm, humans now hardly read anything at all..."

https://theamericanscholar.org/baby-shoggoth-is-listening/

Baby Shoggoth Is Listening​

Why are some writers tailoring their work for AI, and what does this mean for the future of writing and reading?

 

[nsaspook]

LeCun, by his choice, has taken a different direction. He has been telling anyone who asks that he thinks large language models, or LLMs, are a dead end in the pursuit of computers that can truly outthink humans. He’s fond of comparing the current start-of-the-art models to the mind of a cat—and he believes the cat to be smarter. Several years ago, he stepped back from managing his AI division at Meta, called FAIR, in favor of a role as an individual contributor doing long-term research.

“I’ve been not making friends in various corners of Silicon Valley, including at Meta, saying that within three to five years, this [world models, not LLMs] will be the dominant model for AI architectures, and nobody in their right mind would use LLMs of the type that we have today,” the 65-year-old said last month at a symposium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/tech...s-now-he-thinks-everyone-is-wrong/ar-AA1QtEKt

 

[Borg]

My coworker and I are very focused on an aspect of my architecture that we call a World View. Based on the above, it sounds very similar to the world models with respect to how we're approaching its design. I'm sure that his is more advanced but I'm definitely on that page w.r.t. the future.