[scubakid]

To me, the term "alien" connotes a level of capability much more interesting than what I've actually seen from most modern systems. But point taken.

And I'd like to believe that you're right about it only being a matter of time and desire, but I do also worry about the possibility that we're actually on a different kind of exponential curve and will instead reach a point where we see diminishing returns.

[rbanffy]

I have no doubts there will be diminishing returns at some point, specially with narrow AIs, where increases in complexity and cost of training models will not be able to improve on what’s already good enough.

AI is a tool like many others, useful for some things and not for others.