Ben Goertzel: LLMs are a tool toward AGI but 'not a complete seed' — the bigger-LLM consensus is short-sighted
bengoertzel · x · 2026-10-06
Step 2 of Goertzel's AGI plan opens with a sharp claim: the implicit consensus that human-level AGI will come from frontier LLM labs training bigger models in better harnesses is short-sighted and incorrect. LLMs are suitable as components and tools for building AGI systems, he argues, but not a complete seed — motivating his neural-symbolic OmegaHive multi-route alternative.
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