Maybe you've already learned this from the replies, but it's not really possible to have an intellectual dialog about the meaning or limitations of this researc

Maybe you've already learned this from the replies, but it's not really possible to have an intellectual dialog about the meaning or limitations of this research. So while I get what you're saying and I'm sympathetic to your point of view, it's too late. The cloud bucks and 5x VC multiples that can be made on this stuff is too good. Even academics, whose whole advantage is that they can resist market forces, have very lucrative careers awaiting them if they publish the right stuff. Then there's all the adjacent benefits. Like what good does it to be publicly skeptical of DeepMind? Google is everywhere in tech and science. Or even some random guy's paper, like where is he going to work? I can count the number of opportunities on my hand, and they all have a lot of influence in technology broadly. You don't even have to be doing AI for it to be rational to simply say, "Wow what an Amazing Discovery" and move along. There's literally no forum that profits from skepticism. Nobody wins when "AI," whatever it is attached to, loses.