…But I’m not sure that actual existing efforts towards delaying AGI are helping.
But perhaps actual existing efforts to hype up LLMs are helping? I am sympathetic to François Chollet’s position:
OpenAI basically set back progress towards AGI by quite a few years probably like five to 10 years for two reasons. They caused this complete closing down of Frontier research publishing but also they triggered this initial burst of hype around LLMs and now LLMs have sucked the oxygen out of the room.
But perhaps actual existing efforts to hype up LLMs are helping? I am sympathetic to François Chollet’s position: