Back to 2014: AGI Needs No Recurrence, Just Long Verbal Instructions
birchlse · x · 2026-07-31
The author makes a humorous observation about how counterintuitive the path to AGI would seem to AI researchers a decade ago:
- Architecture: The most likely path to AGI involves removing all recurrence and convolution mechanisms (reflecting the triumph of the Transformer architecture).
- Alignment: The best bet for alignment turns out to be training the model on a long verbal description of desired behaviors (system prompts).
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