[jjaredsimpson]

I'll take a crack. Progress in ML applications to previously intractable problems has created an irrational optimism that AGI is on the near term horizon.

I'm not aware of any novel abstraction which led to a solution to these intractable problems. The problems became tractable because of silicon and incremental algorithm improvements.

This is another way of saying, yeah intractable problems are being made tractable, but these problems aren't stepping stones to AGI.