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And the pendulum swings back toward representation. It is becoming clear that the LLM approach is not adequate to reach what John McCarthy called human-level intelligence:

Between us and human-level intelligence lie many problems. They can be summarized as that of succeeding in the "common-sense informatic situation". [1]

And the search continues...

[1] https://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/human.pdf

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> It is becoming clear that the LLM approach is not adequate to reach what John McCarthy called human-level intelligence

Perhaps paradoxically, if/as this becomes a consensus view, I can be more excited about AI. I am an "AI skeptic" not in principle, but with respect to the current intertwined investment and hype cycles surrounding "AI".

Absent the overblown hype, I can become more interested in the real possibilities (both immediate, using existing ML methods; and the remote, theoretical capabilities follow from what I think about minds and computers in general) again.

I think when this blows over I can also feel freer to appreciate some of the genuinely cool tricks LLMs can perform.