Even Nature has clickbait titles now. I agree with the quote. The ability of AI to augment human capabilities has way more potential than the more speculative

Even Nature has clickbait titles now. I agree with the quote. The ability of AI to augment human capabilities has way more potential than the more speculative ideas about artificial general intelligence. This is why I'm not very sympathetic to the skepticism toward deep learning and LLMs as "not intelligence", "not real AI", "stochastic parrots", etc. Who cares whether or not these systems are generally intelligent agents, if they have the potential to increase the scientific output of humanity by even 10 or 20%?