It strikes me as amazing that we went from the general recognition that AGI wasn't anywhere soon to suddenly having this widespread idea that it was right aroun

It strikes me as amazing that we went from the general recognition that AGI wasn't anywhere soon to suddenly having this widespread idea that it was right around the corner. Sort of reminds me of the late 90s super-proto-VR stuff where people thought any day now we'd be jacking into full immersion (tactile, smell and all) virtual reality. Don't get me wrong, LLM's are useful tools. But ChatGPT aint Neuromancer. Or even Wintermute. It's Clippy after a few years of community college.