It feels like some of the comments are responding to the title, not the contents of the article.
Maybe a more descriptive but longer title would be: AGI will work with multimodal inputs and outputs embedded in a physical environment rather than a frankenstein combination of single-modal models (what today is called multimodal) and throwing more computational resources at the problem (scale maximalism) will be improved with thoughtful theoretical approaches to data and training.
Interesting article but incomplete in important ways. Yes correct that embodiment and free-form interactions are critical to moving toward AGI, but what is likely much more important are supervisory meta-systems (yet another module) that enable self-control of attention with a balance integration of intrinsic goals with extrinsic perturbations. It is this nominally simple self-recursive control of attention that is what I regard as the missing ingredient.
Yeah, I found this article to be fascinating and there's a lot of important stuff in it. It really does feel like more people stopped at the title and missed the meat of it.
I know this is a very long article compared to a lot of things posted here, but it really is worth a thorough read.
I discovered that this is very common when posting a long article about LLM reasoning. Half the comments spoke of the exact things in the article as if they were original ideas.
Maybe a more descriptive but longer title would be: AGI will work with multimodal inputs and outputs embedded in a physical environment rather than a frankenstein combination of single-modal models (what today is called multimodal) and throwing more computational resources at the problem (scale maximalism) will be improved with thoughtful theoretical approaches to data and training.