>However, we are so far away from producing anything remotely close to that level of AI, that I fear their work is ungrounded. It strikes me as fun quasi-SF rat

>However, we are so far away from producing anything remotely close to that level of AI, that I fear their work is ungrounded. It strikes me as fun quasi-SF rather than serious engineering. Really we have no idea. True nothing around today is remotely close to human intelligence, but the question is; will AI be a slow gradual process, or will someone make a breakthrough and suddenly make a lot of progress very quickly? In any case, it won't happen at all if people aren't working on it.