AGI has always been "just around the corner", ever since computers were invented.
Some problems have become more tractable (e.g. language translation), mostly by lowering our expectations of what constitutes a "solution", but AGI is nowhere nearer. AGI is a secular milleniarist religion.
Some problems have become more tractable (e.g. language translation), mostly by lowering our expectations of what constitutes a "solution", but AGI is nowhere nearer. AGI is a secular milleniarist religion.