Yeah, the last 3 years of "We now know how to build AGI" failing to deliver shows that there's something being missed about the nature of intelligence. The "We are all stochastic parrots" people has been awfully quiet recently
I doubt this. General intelligence will be a step change not a gentle ramp. If we get to an architecture intelligent enough to meaningfully contribute to AI development, we'll have already made it. It'll simply be a matter of scale. There's no 99% AGI that can help build 100% AGI but for some reason can't drive a car or cook a meal or work an office job.
