I believe that we are not close to "general AI", at all. Yet, that is a very different position than believing that "general AI" is not possible at all, which

I believe that we are not close to "general AI", at all. Yet, that is a very different position than believing that "general AI" is not possible at all, which I think is a foolish position considering highly adaptative beings exist "biomechanically" in the form of humans.