# Large language model AI doesn't learn **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Tags:** ai\ **Created:** [May 30, 2023, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/large-language-model-ai-doesnt-learn/984778 "2023-05-30T17:27:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 12
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> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > > [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > > > They have an enormous database of words, and they know which words most often appear after other words ⁢ > > If that’s all they do, is that enough to really count as “artificial intelligence”? That’s an argument I’ve seen made by people who work with the technology. What the average person thinks of as “artificial intelligence” and what LLMs actually do are quite different, and that it’s unfortunate that the name “AI” has caught on for the idea. What most people envision is referred to as an AGI: an artificial general intelligence. > **[Artificial general intelligence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence)** > > An artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a hypothetical type of intelligent agent. If realized, an AGI could learn to accomplish any intellectual task that human beings or animals can perform. Alternatively, AGI has been defined as an autonomous system that surpasses human capabilities in the majority of economically valuable tasks.\[promotion?\] Creating AGI is a primary goal of some artificial intelligence research and of companies such as OpenAI, DeepMind, and Anthropic. AGI is The timeli... --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/large-language-model-ai-doesnt-learn/984778)._