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mellosouls ◴[] No.43745240[source]
The capabilities of AI post gpt3 have become extraordinary and clearly in many cases superhuman.

However (as the article admits) there is still no general agreement of what AGI is, or how we (or even if we can) get there from here.

What there is is a growing and often naïve excitement that anticipates it as coming into view, and unfortunately that will be accompanied by the hype-merchants desperate to be first to "call it".

This article seems reasonable in some ways but unfortunately falls into the latter category with its title and sloganeering.

"AGI" in the title of any article should be seen as a cautionary flag. On HN - if anywhere - we need to be on the alert for this.

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yeahwhatever10 ◴[] No.43746319[source]
This is the forum that fell the hardest for the superconductor hoax a few years ago. HN has no superiority leg to stand on.
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Seanambers ◴[] No.43749597[source]
LK-99? The room temperature superconductor made by some guys in a small lab in Korea after 20 years of attempts - who doesn't want that to be real.

Won´t say people fell for it though it was just the current happening at the time.

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1. cdblades ◴[] No.43751056[source]
> who doesn't want that to be real.

I think that's exactly the point the person you're responding to is calling out. That's a massive bias.