This is an incredibly stupid argument.

Toddlers and dogs and earthworms have intelligence. It's really hard to argue that LLM's don't have intelligence in the way the earthworms do. So just by a reading of the acronym, we already have AGI.

"But AGI means human level or better". Fine. You should call it that, Artificial Superhuman Intelligence.

But intelligence isn't a single thing, it's a broad array of behaviours. LLM's are obviously superhuman in some areas, just like calculators are. LLM's are obviously worse than humans in other areas.

But you'll always be able to find something that humans are better at. I'm sure somebody can find something that the earthworm brain is better at than the human brain.

> It's really hard to argue that LLM's don't have intelligence in the way the earthworms do.

It's really easy to argue, actually. LLMs have intelligence the way humans online do. An earthworm is highly specialized for what it does and exists in a completely different context - I doubt an LLM would be successful guiding a robotic earthworm around since all it knows about earthworms is what researchers have observed and documented. The actual second-to-second experience of being an earthworm is not accessible as training data to an LLM.

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This is true almost by definition. An LLM (Large Language Model) can't have intelligence that's not expressible in language and earthworms are notoriously shy in interviews.