LLMs are definitely here to stay. Even if they don't turn out to be the road to AGI, they can be used by all sorts of sub-AGI agents as a "language centre". An

LLMs are definitely here to stay. Even if they don't turn out to be the road to AGI, they can be used by all sorts of sub-AGI agents as a "language centre". An encoder can be used to extract meaning from input, and an autoregressive decoder conditioned on the agent's internal state can be used to keep a conversation going. What's not clear at all is whether the traditional transformer architecture will endure.