Can AGI be achieved with LLMs alone?

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Summary

This post explores the debate among top AI figures regarding whether LLMs alone can achieve AGI or if additional breakthroughs like world models are required.

There seems to be a lot of debate over whether LLMs alone can give us AGI. Dario Amodei seems to think LLMs are all we need whilst others like Demis Hassabis, Yann LeCun, and François Chollet seem to think that whilst LLMs will be a component of AGI, more breakthroughs, like world models, will be needed. For this I will use Wikipedia's definition of AGI, namely an AI that surpasses human capabilities across virtually all cognitive tasks. [View Poll](https://www.reddit.com/poll/1ta4ay0)
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