Comment by Kevin Varela-O'Hara (kevin-varela-o-hara) on The "public debate" about AI is confusing for the general public and for policymakers because it is a three-sided debate · 2023-08-01T18:23:57.934Z · LW · GW

I don’t think all boosters would agree with “We are likely to see something like AGI in the next 5 years”. Yan LeCun Has explicitly said that LLMs are an off-ramp on the path to AI, and that we haven’t made an AI that as smart as a cat at this point so AGI is still a long way off.