That's unfortunate. My personal sense is that while agentic LLM's are not going to get us close to AGI, a few relatively modest architectural changes to the underlying models might actually do that, and I do think mimicry of our own self-referential attention is a very important component of that.
While the current AI boom is a bubble, I actually think that AGI nut could get cracked quietly by a company with even modest resources if they get lucky on the right fundamental architectural changes.
I agree - and I think having interdisciplinary approach here is going to increase the odds here. There is a ton of useful knowledge in related disciplines - often just named differently - but turns out investigating the same problem from a different angle.
While the current AI boom is a bubble, I actually think that AGI nut could get cracked quietly by a company with even modest resources if they get lucky on the right fundamental architectural changes.