Joscha Bach is an iconoclastic researcher working at the intersection of AI and cognitive science. He previously was a researcher at both the MIT Media Lab and at Harvard. Between 2021 - January 2023 he was Principle AI Engineer at Intel's Cognitive Computing group. He currently serves as AI strategist at Liquid AI and on the advisory council of the AI Foundation. His website is http://bach.ai and you can find him on X at   / plinz  .

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Is the LLM the last invention humanity needs to make?
The success of LLMs is taking the world by storm. The Turing test seems to have been obliterated years ago, and more applications and use cases are unlocked every week. Yet many of us are skeptical: are LLMs sufficient to carry us all the way to AGI? Are they the way to creating superhuman intelligence, a transitional development, or a dead end?