alt Hacker NewsThey have a product to sell based on the idea AGI is right around the corner. You can’t trust Sam Altman as far as you can throw him.
Still, the sales pitch has worked to unlock huge liquidity for him so there’s that.
Still making predictions is a big part of what brains do though not the only thing. Someone wise said that LLM intelligence is a new kind of intelligence, like how animal intelligence is different from ours but is still intelligence but needs to be characterized to understand differences.
> Someone wise said that LLM intelligence is a new kind of intelligence
So long as you accept the slide ruler as a "new kind of intelligence" everything will probably work out fine, it's the Altmannian insistence that only the LLM is of the new kind that is silly.