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People are having their minds blown because these LLMs are the closest we've come to Artificial General Intelligence. Rather than excelling at individual tasks,

• marginalia_nu 4y ago
  It isn't performing the tasks though, but making predictions. Old generation AI arguably did perform the tasks to a larger extent than LLMs do. I'm extremely skeptical this is anywhere near AGI.
  • alach11 4y ago
    > Old generation AI arguably did perform the tasks to a larger extent than LLMs do Nonsense - none of them were as general! What older AI do you believe performed the same variety of tasks as LLMs with a better result? Show me any older AI that can outperform LLMs at all of these tasks: - Write poetry - Do math - Carry on a conversation - Debug code - Play chess
    • marginalia_nu 4y ago
      > Nonsense - none of them were as general! What older AI do you believe performed the same variety of tasks as LLMs with a better result? I did not say they were general, I said they performed the task, as opposed to predicting what someone having performed the task would reply. I'm contesting the I, not the G.
    • YeGoblynQueenne 4y ago
      >> Show me any older AI that can outperform LLMs at all of these tasks: - Write poetry - Do math - Carry on a conversation - Debug code - Play chess Outperform - measured by what metric, can you clarify?