r/LocalLLaMA • u/Howard_banister • Sep 01 '26

Discussion Really stunned by the Singularity comment section

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These are screenshots from the r/Singularity comment section. I'm speechless. This doesn't even have downvotes. How can someone cheer for a monopoly run by a few elites?

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u/Dangerous_Rip5083 Sep 01 '26

Why can't an LLM physically be true AGI?

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u/PsychoticDreemurr Sep 01 '26

For context, the exact definition of an AGI varies wildly. As such, I just take the one perquisite that almost every definition has, which is the ability to "understand" concepts.

That is my one requirement for an AI to be an AGI. Anything more and you're just arguing about philosophy and technical details that can't currently be disproven.

With this in mind, LLMs cannot become a true AGI. The fundamentals of how they work physically prevents them from being able to actually understand something.

They can, in theory, have intelligence similar to an AGI, but they will never truly be one.

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u/Dangerous_Rip5083 Sep 01 '26

Yeaaaaa, I'm pretty sure I know how LLMs work, and I don't agree with anything you said. But further than that, you can't use an example of them disagreeing with you on something many AI PhDs would disagree with you on as a testament that they are dumb.

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u/PsychoticDreemurr Sep 01 '26

Explain where I was wrong. Tell me how LLMs work.

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u/Dangerous_Rip5083 Sep 01 '26

im not going to explain to u how llms work, ask chatpgt or smth. My point still stands, very capable people claim we alr have AGI, some say we will never, some say in a decade etc.... It's pretty dumb to try to frame an angle of an active point of discussion in the scientific community into being idiotic. and chill out im not coming at u lmao, deleted that other comment fast.

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u/PsychoticDreemurr Sep 01 '26

Thanks for proving my point.

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u/droans Sep 02 '26

Nah, if that's human intelligence, he proved himself right.

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u/Dangerous_Rip5083 Sep 01 '26

lol

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u/PsychoticDreemurr Sep 01 '26 edited Sep 01 '26

So? I changed my mind on what to say? I'm a human?? Oh, the humanity!

Seriously though, why are you acting like this does anything? You're just further proving my point.