Urban: LLMs lack general intelligence and cannot run a gas station
Tim Urban · How AI Might Solve the Alien Mystery: Thought Leader's Paradox · Joe Lonsdale · Feb 14, 2025 · at 15:09
Tim Urban evaluates the current boundaries between narrow and general intelligence in large language models.
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“LLM still can't run a gas station, you know, just because it involves all of these things that for us with general intelligence, it's no big deal for an AI. It's gonna have, it's just, it's not there. So we're still the king of the general intelligence castle.”
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