Marvin Minsky famously published a book in 1986 called "Society of Mind", in which he argued that people don't really have a "mind", but rather an enormous assortment of specialized subsystems that interoperate to produce the illusion of coherent consciousness. I think that this belief is what's needed to guide us forward towards AGI. IMHO, no further technological breakthroughs are necessary to achieve AGI; the rema…
According to a debate I had with Gemini (rofl what an "authoritative statement"), it claimed that LLMs can't get to AGI for three reasons. First, that it has no desire for self-preservation, to which I responded with self-preservation / non-corruption of itself. Arguably enough. Second, that it has no intrinsic motivation, to which I said it can seek to minimize entropy / maximize information gain of the world around us (min/maxing some function built on Information theory) and it relented. But what I can't solve for...LLMs can't learn like people. It is not a 20W piece of wetware running in the real world able to integrate and learn in real-time. It's gotta be batched trained then reinforced. Maybe this is irrelevant if the machine can pretend to be us sufficiently well, but I feel that, in truth, it's not a true AGI until we find a better algo / hardware substrate.
Oh...wait a minute...organoids are hitting the market :D