[paganel]

Because it's not real intelligence and because lots of money and expertise are thrown at something that's not going to get us closer to AGI.

As a neo-luddite myself I'm personally fine with that (as I'm personally fine with us throwing money away at CERN), but there are people who still think that AGI is possible and who also think that reaching AGI is a worthy goal, so those people might not be ok with chasing windmills.