[random314]

I am not sure who this person is. How much has he published in ML and what is his h-index.

As examples, Le Cun has a h-index of 127 Hinton 164 Goodfellow 75 etc. None of them consider AGI to be a realistic possibility this century. Kurzweil, the AGI proponent, has an hindex of 22.

[mpfundstein]

always remember that the scientific community was pretty much against Einsteins ideas when he first began publishing.

[random314]

I don't recall any such thing. His papers were peer reviewed and published in science journals by the scientific community. Minkowski famously followed up with the concept of spacetime as a consequence of relativity.