Kant: Internet data lacks the thought processes needed for AGI
Eiso Kant · Intelligence Isn’t Enough: Why Energy & Compute Decide the AGI Race – Eiso Kant · Nov 6, 2025 · at 35:58
Eiso Kant, co-CEO of Poolside, explains why pre-training language models on public web text is insufficient to achieve AGI.
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“But the reason that never got us to AGI is because, well, the internet never actually included the data set of the thoughts and actions that created it. It's the final piece of code, it's the final article you write, but not the thoughts that you had and actions that led to it.”
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