Not with LLMs. AGI needs reasoning which LLMs are fundamentally incapable of.

As others have said, LLMs simply do not have such a potential.

On the other hand, we have fully mapped simple brains, so it seems likely that we may be able to simulate a complete human brain at some point in the distant future. You can download a nematode brain yourself if you want.

I certainly hope not.

Yes,

No idea it doesn't seem like the current AI hype is even close though.

No.

I always look at new things by comparing them to old things.

When PCs gathered widespread adoption the idea of an autonomous robot became popular. But it was still more than 2 centuries before the first practically self-driving cars were tested. It will be another 10 years or so before self-driving is actually feasible on a city-wide level.

I look at AGI the same way people wanted their own wall.e in the 2000s. Yeah, we've made indescribable progress in that direction but still our current trajectory does not provide enough proximity to AGI to ever become feasible. There's probably another 2 or 3 big changes that even gets us close enough to see the finish line.

I think the goalposts will keep moving.

First they proclaimed AI. It was pointed out LLMs aren't really AI.

Then they said, "No that's AGI".

Eventually someone will claim AGI. That will be refuted.

Then they will say, "No that's Super AGI!", or some other nonsense.

Rinse and repeat.

Yes eventually, the only way it won't be is if it's physically impossible to replicate a human brain, i don't believe that'a the case

Fuck AI nonetheless, it needs regulation not hope

No.

AGI is likely attainable, but if humans are to accomplish that, it'll have to be the civilization that's built out of the rubble that ours leaves behind after the ruling class psychopaths get through destroying it.

Yes. I don't know about the timeline for the higher bar definitions of AGI. For the lower bar definitions, we're basically already at "good enough" today.

If you'd told me 10 years ago that I'd be able to run a program on my computer which would let me feed in an image along with some CSS and JS files and it would then give me a correction that fixes the bug I indicated visually... I would not have believed you. Here I am in 2026 though, and I have done exactly that several times with local LLMs on my own hardware. That same program can also take a natural language description of characters, motivations, and a vague scenario and write a scene. Not an especially well written scene, most of the time, but good enough to get the characters from the initial conditions to ending conditions via complex intermediate steps. I can also define tools it hasn't seen before and it can combine them in sequence to solve a problem defined in natural language. Is it perfectly reliable? Hell no. Is it always coherent? Definitely not. The fact that it can do as much as it can is just bonkers though. If we're getting this far with what I strongly suspect is not the ideal architecture for general intelligence, god only knows what we'll see when we do hit on the right architecture.

I mean, eventually.

Maybe soon.

It has nothing to do with contemporary LLMs though.

And I’m not an LLM skeptic. I’ve trained and manipulated them for work, I’ve played with them as a hobby for years. They are dumb tools, like a hammer. A completely different technology path. And “real” AI is certainly not coming out of OpenAI, nor Anthropic.

I think AGI will not be defined by scientific consensus but by a social/legal one. Experts will still argue if some software is AGI or not while people will simply start treating it like a conscious being. We already see people falling in love with LLMs and those are as different form a real person as you can get. The moment AI becomes more human like and people start interacting with them in a more natural way we will start seeing more and more people developing empathy for them and a slow process of granting them rights will begin (first informal ones, then formalized). There won't be a strictly defined point in time when we'll achieve AGI. It will be a long process.

Assuming it's technically possible - and I see no reason why it wouldn't be - then as long as we keep improving our technology without killing ourselves in the process, it's only a matter of time. We could get there in a couple of years or it could take a few hundred, but it seems rather inevitable from where I stand.

Nope. All I see is people making themselves stupider so they can claim the machine is as smart as them.

Eventually, yeah. But we need to learn a lot more about how consciousness works first. Right now, we basically know jack shit about real consciousness so making artificial consciousness is impossible.

I bet it's possible to create an electronic brain. Probably gonna be a while, though.

Is AGI possible? Yes. How and when we can achieve it, if at all? No one on this planet knows.

I don't think you can predict agi, especially right now. Like I think if we dedicated an entire data center to a single agi, yeah maybe, but this really is just all about money, and so that probably isn't something anybody that can afford it is working on.

For everyday agi, that is going to require either a shit ton of breakthroughs, or somebody will just figure it out one day and it'll happen everywhere.

Will it be achieved?

Undoubtedly.

When?

See my first paragraphs. My intuition tells me it isn't happening this round, much like real VR really isn't happening this round, but I also didn't think much of AI (not general ml) back when they were showing it beat people in DOTA.

Yes. Unless humans stop being humans, there will always be a non-negligible subset of humans that wishes to artificially create a replica of human capacities with their own hands.

For the when, it's pure guesswork. We first need to understand the how before understanding the when.

They struggle with what they call AI still so not any time soon. Welcome to the hockey stick.

I think it's inevitable.
I also think it won't be possible on our current kind of computing hardware.

The software of the human mind, seems a byproduct of the structure of the human brain. I think a major revolution in processor design and manufacturing tech will be needed. It'll need some fundamentally new form. Closer to an ASIC or FPGA processor to run with any kind of reasonable efficiency. But it'll have to be truly 3 dimensional, not just layers of 2d chips. It'll also need to be extremely low power.

LLMs are as close as we have right now, and they have miles to go. But they need hundreds of times more power than the brain does. No it won't be soon and it won't be with this kind of silicon processors.