'People are freaking out with GPT-6. Imagine GPT-8, and with a body'
cloneofsimo · x · 2026-09-04
As excitement builds around GPT-6, the author pushes the extrapolation further: imagine GPT-7, then GPT-8 with a physical body. He recalls that the 'feel the AGI' fervor among SF lab employees was once dismissed as cult-like groupthink — but they simply had a better intuition for exponentials, and model capability gains are now vindicating them.
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