AI wizardry has always been gears and pulleys when you look behind the curtain. Transformers are no more or less alive than Eliza and Deep Blue. But ChatGPT is

AI wizardry has always been gears and pulleys when you look behind the curtain. Transformers are no more or less alive than Eliza and Deep Blue. But ChatGPT is probably more useful as a tool than either. So although I am profoundly skeptical of AGI metaphysics, I have come to the conclusion that "How do we make an AGI?" is a sound engineering approach when the goal is building useful tools for the benefit of other people. YMMV.