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AGI illusion language models essay
The Illusion of AGI, or What Language Models Can Do Without Thought
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“I wrote more about what I mean about why I mark a difference between “intelligence” and “language production” here: techpolicy.press/the-illusion...” evidence ↗
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“I wrote more about what I mean about why I mark a difference between “intelligence” and “language production” here: techpolicy.press/the-illusion...”
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Eryk Salvaggio: I find that, no matter how many ways I acknowledge LLMs etc are changing, people dismiss me as “crazy” or “unserious” because I refuse to attribute those changes to “intelligence.” I will say again…
Eryk Salvaggio: I understand that one functions as the other, but LLMs work by printing a path through a process that arrives at a completion point by tightening the tension between word salad and a legible destin…
Eryk Salvaggio: If you want to argue that this is some narrow specific *form* of intelligence, fine, but don’t scope-creep. A capacity for language production doesn’t automatically infer human-bound interpretation…
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