Ben Goertzel and Karl Friston on why LLMs alone won't reach AGI
bengoertzel · x · 2026-11-10
Ben Goertzel joined UCL neuroscientist Karl Friston to discuss why increasingly powerful language models may not be enough to achieve AGI. Their conversation covered how the human brain learns, whether machines can possess consciousness and moral agency, and how predictive-coding research could lead to AI systems that learn continuously from experience.
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