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Ask HN: Are LLMs just the right-brain?

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And if so, does that make us (via prompting) a left-brain?

LLMs are fantastic at generating believable nonsense, a creative stream of expression that superficially resembles reality. This is not a criticism; what LLms can do is a superpower. But the left-brain of AGI is still MIA. Are model builders aiming to fill that void, or do we need a different mechanism? If so, what might that be?

The author ponders whether Large Language Models (LLMs) represent the 'right-brain' of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and if so, what mechanism might fill the role of the 'left-brain'.

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