Sam Altman thinks that AGI is basically a solved problem. I don’t. Here’s why.

Yesterday Sam Altman claimed in a new blog post that “We are now confident we how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it”, alleging that OpenAI (which has not demonstrated AGI) was now on to new and better things.

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