>>> But inference engines are now out of fashion, because they rely (at least, for now) on human curated knowledge bases, and lack the facile fluency of #LLMs.
I do not believe that we can achieve #ArtificialGeneralIntelligence #AGI without a semantic layer comprising at least an explicit ontology, a semantic model, and an auditable, sourced, set of inference rules.
I think #LLMs are probably a dead end. And I think they are distracting from technologies which could be genuinely useful.