I'm in general agreement with everything you say in that comment; my complaint is more about the apparent expectations of investors and the general public about where this might go and how soon. From my point of view, all the recent advances, while impressive, still leave us in the same place as we've been for literally more than half a …
I'm in general agreement with everything you say in that comment; my complaint is more about the apparent expectations of investors and the general public about where this might go and how soon.
From my point of view, all the recent advances, while impressive, still leave us in the same place as we've been for literally more than half a century: "We have lots of large claims about when the big advances are going to come, and still have no idea when, or even if, we might start approaching something resembling AGI, especially for production use."
Remember all the hype about fully autonomous vehicles in the previous decade? As we came into the 2020s there was no big celebration of the 25th anniversary of the first fully autonomous U.S. coast-to-coast drive, probably because bringing that up would not exactly be great for investor confidence in how fast we're moving on this stuff.
I'm in general agreement with everything you say in that comment; my complaint is more about the apparent expectations of investors and the general public about where this might go and how soon.
From my point of view, all the recent advances, while impressive, still leave us in the same place as we've been for literally more than half a century: "We have lots of large claims about when the big advances are going to come, and still have no idea when, or even if, we might start approaching something resembling AGI, especially for production use."
Remember all the hype about fully autonomous vehicles in the previous decade? As we came into the 2020s there was no big celebration of the 25th anniversary of the first fully autonomous U.S. coast-to-coast drive, probably because bringing that up would not exactly be great for investor confidence in how fast we're moving on this stuff.