The sad truth is that even if such a thing as AGI can ever exist, we won’t ever see it in any of our lifetimes, it’s prob the conversation for many decades and centuries in the future, and where we are now is pretty much the nascency of widespread, conscious AI use among the masses. Of course, we’ve all been using AI for years but with these GPT-connected chatbots it’s become much more common and active a decision to use AI than it ever was before. ChatGPT is the tip of the iceberg, we don’t even know if the true best model going forward is going to remain the transformer (and it’s not the best at everything, just the most “generalizable” at the moment as far as I’m aware). What I’m wondering is how advanced the societies of the distant future will be, where they look down on us and the state of our relatively primitive AI as we do monkeys with their great stone nutcrackers