I can't speak intelligently about how close AGI really is (I do not believe it is but I guess someone somehow somewhere might come up with a brilliant idea that nobody thought of so far and voila).
However I'm flabbergasted by the lack of attention to so-called "hallucinations" (which is a misleading, I mean marketing, term and we should be talking about errors or inaccuracies).
The problem is that we don't really know why LLMs work. I mean you can run the inference and apply the formula and get output from the given input, but you can't "explain" why LLM produced phase A as an output instead of B,C, or N. There's just too many parameters and computations to go though, and the very concept of "explaining" or "understanding" might not even apply here.
And if we can't understand how this thing works, we can't understand why it doesn't work properly (produces wrong output) and also don't know how to fix it.
And instead of talking about it and trying to find a solution everybody moved on to the agents which are basically LLMs that are empowered to perform complex actions IRL.
How does this makes any sense to anybody? I feel like I'm crazy or missing something important.
I get it, a lot of people are making a lot of money and a lot of promises are being made. But this is absolutely fundamental issue that is not that difficult to understand to anybody with a working brain, and yet I am really not seeing any attention paid to it whatsoever.