Some people seems to not get this: LLMs do not need to be the ASI themselves

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Summary

The article argues that LLMs do not need to become ASI themselves; they can research and develop new AI models that might not be LLMs, leading to ASI through narrow super-intelligence.

Some people are skeptics about ASI because "LLMs can't reach ASI". Let's make this clear. If any AI-LLM based system can research and develop another AI model because it has some narrow super-intelligence on that topic, then a new model they will create might not be an LLM anymore, it could be something completely new. We don't need to create that "completely new" model-architecture by ourselves for an ASI to arrive. A system more capable than us can do it, just like how it is more capable than us to solve some difficult math equations (narrow super-intelligence). So either you consider LLMs as capable of reaching ASI or not, it doesn't matter.
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