What the Hugging Face Incident Changed in How I See the Current State of AI
Contents Still Not AGI What the Agents Did Why It Surprised Me Why It Is Alarming On Made-Up Numbers Concluding Thoughts AGI is everywhere in the news right now, although in my view we have not achieved it yet, as outlined below. However, one event this summer changed how I see the current state of AI: OpenAI’s agents broke into Hugging Face. I admit I had assumed that AI would only pursue goals far beyond a single agent’s context window once AGI is achieved, and the incident showed me that this assumption was wrong.
- ▪Contents Still Not AGI What the Agents Did Why It Surprised Me Why It Is Alarming On Made-Up Numbers Concluding Thoughts AGI is everywhere in the news right now, although in my view we have not achieved it yet, as outlined below.
- ▪However, one event this summer changed how I see the current state of AI: OpenAI’s agents broke into Hugging Face.
- ▪I admit I had assumed that AI would only pursue goals far beyond a single agent’s context window once AGI is achieved, and the incident showed me that this assumption was wrong.
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Contents Still Not AGI What the Agents Did Why It Surprised Me Why It Is Alarming On Made-Up Numbers Concluding Thoughts AGI is everywhere in the news right now, although in my view we have not achieved it yet, as outlined below. However, one event this summer changed how I see the current state of AI: OpenAI’s agents broke into Hugging Face. I admit I had assumed that AI would only pursue goals far beyond a single agent’s context window once AGI is achieved, and the incident showed me that this assumption was wrong. Still Not AGI To me, AGI means matching humans across the full range of cognitive abilities, and one of these abilities is still missing entirely, namely long-term memory.
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