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It is normal, but it's kind of disappointing that from my (uneducated) vantage point, we don't seem to be at all closer to AGI than we were in 1994.

It's like the difference between Kitty Hawk and a Boeing airliner. Yes, they are impressive feats of engineering, and the massive training hours tell the story.

But the Boeing Airliner is still less clever than a fruit fly, to merge the metaphors.

Edit:

to expand - it seems to get something as smart as a dog is almost the same as something as smart as a human.

  1994 neural net
  2020 GPT-3
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  unknown numbers of dots...

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  dog
  human


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