[antons_ghost]

People certainly talk about general_ai.exe.

Often I imagine I had a technology such as general artificial intelligence or world-class NLP. Perhaps I lack imagination, but I have not yet thought of an exciting application. These are tools, much like Perl scripts, and it is not clear to me which will displace more jobs during my life.

[tommynicholas]

Not serious people in any near-term way. Even bullish AI folks think general AI is MINIMUM of 10, more likely 50-100 years away.