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AI has been helping with the development of AI ever since at least the first optimising compiler or formal logic circuit verification program.

Machine learning has been helping with the development of machine learning ever since hyper-parameter optimisers became a thing.

Transformers have been helping with the development of transformer models… I don't know exactly, but it was before ChatGPT came out.

None of the initials in AGI are booleans.

But I do agree that:

> "fast acceleration within two years" is unsupported, just wishful thinking

Nobody has any strong evidence of how close "it" is, or even a really good shared model of what "it" even is.



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