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Yann LeCun's [0] comment on the post:

Welcome to the club, John.

A word of warning though: There is no such thing as AGI. Reaching human-level AI is a good goal. But human intelligence is very, very specialized.

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LeCun is more accomplished and smarter than I will ever be, but his thoughts on the term 'AGI' just seem like dumb pedantry regarding word definitions to me.

Perhaps you should examine your seemings then.

Sounds like it is more like an wishful thinking from a person who spent his life mastering deep nets than a nitpick. Like "Sure deep nets can never be an AGI, but Humans are not AGI's so we can reach human level performance with deep nets, it is not a dead end! IT IS NOT A DEAD END!".

I think the saying "Science Advances One Funeral at a Time" applies here.

Sounds exactly like what I would say if my life's work revolved around the idea that AI boils down to how many neurons we can simulate

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