I think this was roughly the title of Andy Warhol's autobiography, but here I'm refering to Artifical Intelligence and (for want of a better word) Bullshit Intelligence For useful background on BS, Frankfurt's book is excellent, with regards to the output from language "models", but also see David Graeber's excellent book - especially if you are considering the future of work.
We need to chart an exit strategy from today's cul-de-sac, and restore the optimism, but also intensely practical landscape of machine learning that has an honest history of 50 years (or even more if you go back to Turing), and a track record of delivering stuff (from signal processing, through medical image processing to protein folding) ....
AGI: just say no. Honest-to-god machine learning, sure - bring it on.
