Is AGI modern alchemy, Science-adjacent but ultimately asking the wrong question? Assuredly, lead can be transmuted into gold, but it doesn't take a philosophe

Is AGI modern alchemy, Science-adjacent but ultimately asking the wrong question? Assuredly, lead can be transmuted into gold, but it doesn't take a philosopher's stone; it takes a star and a few billion years. Maybe artificial general intelligence is possible, but it just takes so much time and energy as to be humanly impractical.