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The United States should start preparing for scenarios where extreme measures must be taken to stop China from achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), according to a former White House official, including state-backed espionage and military strikes on Chinese data centres. Jacob Stokes, deputy director of the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the Centre for a New American Security (CNAS), said at an online event on Thursday that various US agencies, including the Department of Defense...


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[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

LLMs and generally deep learning as a whole have a number of serious limitations that would seemingly prevent AGI. That's not even getting into the fact that a lot of the fundamentals of LLMs havent changed since they were rolled out almost a decade ago, so it seems unlikely we struck gold in 2017 and just havent worked it out yet.

A great example is that LLMs can't do most math on their own. The Dag like structure of deep learning puts a finite limit on the number of calculations that are possible.