AI and its Hype Men.

Large Language Models have come a long way. Do they presage the imminence of AGI? Artificial Intelligence is being talked about so much that I am swamped with this information on Twitter. Whenever I check on my timeline I encounter at least one thread based on it. Perhaps I follow such interesting people who are bullish about it. Some even predict that we are just few years away from the oncoming of Artificial General Intelligence. I read this interview published in IEEE Spectrum of on Rodney Brooks which gave me another, a more skeptical perspective about the imminence of AGI. It is a fun conversation to read. Brooks does not…