Which path to AGI: transformers scale directly, invent a successor, or just help build one?
flowersslop · x · 2026-08-18
A widely discussed tweet lays out three possible paths to AGI: (1) transformers scale all the way to AGI and beyond; (2) transformers reach functional AGI and then invent a superior non-transformer AGI; (3) transformers fall short of AGI but help develop the non-transformer architecture that eventually gets there.
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