Your wife doesn't let you use WeChat because you could find prostitutes? Sorry, this confused me. If you want to hire a prostitute, not having access to WeChat won't block you from that. Or is this more about avoiding temptation?
For every example where someone over predicted the time it would take for a breakthrough, there are at least 10 examples of people being too optimistic with their predictions.
And with AGI, you also have the likes of Sam Altman making up bullshit claims just to pump up the investment into OpenAI. So I wouldn’t take much of their claims seriously either.
LLMs are a fantastic invention. But they’re far closer to SMS text predict than they are to generalised intelligence.
Though what you might see is OpenAI et al redefine the term “AGI” just so they can say they’ve hit that milestone, again purely for their own financial gain.
in the history of AI usually people overestimate how long a capability is reached. There are very few counterexamples to this (GPT5 capability level might be one of them though)
This reminds me how, a few years after the first fission power plant, Teller, Bhaba, and other nuclear physicists of the 1950s were convinced fusion power plants were about as far away as the physicists of today still predict they are.
I'm cautiously optimistic of each technology, but the point is it's easy to find bullshit predictions without actually gaining any insight into what will happen with a given technology.
