I don’t think generative AI is a stepping stone to AGI. I think they’re quite different. I understand generative AI as a million monkeys on a million typewrite

I don’t think generative AI is a stepping stone to AGI. I think they’re quite different. I understand generative AI as a million monkeys on a million typewriters, but we figured out how to rig the typewriters to generate convincing and sometimes correct output. Neither monkeys individually or collectively understand anything about how they responded. They just get a treat for doing well. AGI is something very different IMO. Language and speech will be emergent in AGI without requiring massive inputs, like how a child learns. LLMs seem like sort of a (very impressive) parlor trick. Neat, useful and terrifying, but not a pathway to AGI.