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hansmayerlast Monday at 7:02 AM1 replyview on HN

...No, it was not meant as a hyperbole, as we were literally being told that these models will be able to do all of our work. I won't settle for the bullshit incremental wins here and there we see occassionally - I attribute those essentially to the old 'infinite number of monkeys typing on the infinite number of typewriters producing "Crime and Peace". No. that's not it - we were promised a god damn revolution, no less. Again, where is the cure for cancer and post-scarcity society ? Where is the AGI we were promised for the 2025? Let's hold the ghouls promising all that accountable for a change.


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the8472last Monday at 12:41 PM

My understanding is that they're promising those as endgoals of the development trajectory, not that any current model actually is AGI. Did anyone really claim that, let's say GPT4, would cure cancer or meet any AGI standard?

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