From now to AGI – What will be the key advancements needed?
Please comment on what you believe will be a necessary development to reach AGI. To start, I'll try to frame what we have now in such a way that it becomes apparent what is missing, if we were to compare AI to human intelligence, and how we might achieve it: What we have: Verbal system 1 (intuitive, quick) thinkers: This is your normal gpt-4o. It fits the criteria for system 1 thinking and likely supersedes humans in almost all verbal system 1 thinking aspects. Verbal system 2 (slow, deep) thinkers: This will be an o-series of models. This is yet to supersede humans, but progress is quick and I deem it plausible that it will supersede humans just by scale alone. Integrated long-term memory: LLMs have a memory far superior to humans. They have seen much more data, and their retention/retri...
