Ethan Mollick Quips That Multimodal LLMs With Tools Are 'Almost Like Artificial General Intelligence'
emollick · x · 2026-09-27
Wharton professor Ethan Mollick quipped that the combined performance of multimodal LLMs with tool use is "almost like some sort of general intelligence, but made with artificial means—very hard to know what we might call that," a wink at the term AGI. He acknowledged the endless debates over "pure LLMs" vs multimodal vs tool-using variants, but said readers get his point.
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