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by askafriend 2127 days ago
The iPhone changed life as I knew it, forever.

But a lot of people dismiss it as just a smartphone.

I guess it depends on your perspective.

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Yes, but it's not "the singularity".

Saying AGI will be like iPhone and therefore underwhelming, is not to demean iPhone. But to place in correct perspective the overinflated ( I think ) sense of self importance and impact of so-called AGI.

It's not underwhelming wrt an average week in Techcrunch, but it's underwhelming wrt to the mythos and delusion that surrounds AGI.

Underwhelming does depend on perspective. But my perspective is not to demean iPhone, just to bring AGI big heads back down to earth.