I'm going to disagree here. I have enough understanding of AI to have built a deep learning framework from first principles. That deep learning framework make

I'm going to disagree here. I have enough understanding of AI to have built a deep learning framework from first principles. That deep learning framework makes a pile of money for Amazon to this day. That I know how it works because I wrote the thing doesn't take away from the miracle that it makes that kind of money for doing complicated but not all that complicated stuff. When I look at generative adversarial networks and the recent attention-based language models I am similarly amazed at what they can do. But I am also 100% aware of their limitations and I think the hype that they are near-term AGI technology is the real magical thinking.