A few of the people making these claims are actually in the field. This does not cause me to take them seriously. Unless there is something secret in a governm

A few of the people making these claims are actually in the field. This does not cause me to take them seriously. Unless there is something secret in a government black project, there has been almost no progress on AGI... at all... ever. We have narrow domain specific algorithms that can ape intelligence in limited domains, but only if they are front loaded by human intelligent designers with a priori knowledge about the meta structure of those domains. There is one class of algorithms that shows some general learning behavior: evolutionary algorithms. Ironically these are the least favored algorithms by CS AI people. I've heard those who work on them made fun of. It's because while GP/EC shows general ability it does so at such prodigious cost in compute cycles that it takes supercomputing resources to get it to do anything interesting. This makes evolutionary algorithms uncompetitive with fast but narrow search and optimization algorithms designed to solve specific problems.