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Why I believe in AGI (again)

Alexey Guzey · 30 Jul 2025

A change of mind in this piece

Work on large language models is not progress toward artificial general intelligence, because the models do not understand what they read.

No longer holdsIt’s become very difficult for me to maintain the belief in the stupidity of ChatGPT when every time I laugh at it, it ends up ridiculing me 6 months later.

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    Work on large language models is not progress toward artificial general intelligence, because the models do not understand what they read.

    No longer holdsIt’s become very difficult for me to maintain the belief in the stupidity of ChatGPT when every time I laugh at it, it ends up ridiculing me 6 months later.
    Their words nowFirst, I’m now convinced that ChatGPT understands what it reads.

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