AGI has always been "just around the corner", ever since computers were invented. Some problems have become more tractable (e.g. language translation), mostly

AGI has always been "just around the corner", ever since computers were invented. Some problems have become more tractable (e.g. language translation), mostly by lowering our expectations of what constitutes a "solution", but AGI is nowhere nearer. AGI is a secular milleniarist religion.