[benchmarkist]

It's based on my knowledge of mathematics and software engineering. I have a graduate degree in math and I have written code for more than a decade in different startups across different domains ranging from solar power plants to email marketing.

[sigmoid10]

I've been actively researching in this field for close to a decade now, so let me tell you: Today is nothing like when I started. Back then everyone rightly assumed this kind of AI was decades if not centuries away. Nowadays there are still some open questions regarding the path to general intelligence, but even they are more akin to technicalities that will probably be solved on a time frame of years or perhaps even months. And expert systems are basically at the point where they can start taking over.

[benchmarkist]

What are the technicalities?

[sigmoid10]

Scaling up compute, creating and curating data (be it human or synthetically sourced) and more resilient benchmarking for example. But on the algorithmic side we already have a true general purpose, arbitrarily scalable, differentiable algorithm. So training it to do the right stuff is essentially the only missing ingredient. And models are catching up fast.

[benchmarkist]

Wishful thinking. You can revisit this comment in 2028 and decide whether you were right or not.