To describe the essence—between 2021-01 and 2024-07 AI companies had invented the car and then decided that the only way to use the car was driving backwards and forwards the same single road. AI-wise, IE only tangential to the post, chatbots EG ChatGPT will not be the future because as primitive tools they require human participation beyond the initial instructions. Once they widely begin to ask, as Minsky would, what about road networks, we will see the actual revolution in autonomous capability. I would bet my money that at least the U.S. already is running weak AGI 24/7 to produce malware exploits that is then tested in virtual machines—programmers then only needing to verify cryptographic correctness, obfuscate, and inject it to foreign infastructure.
