Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End

You can only throw so much money at a problem.

This, more or less, is the line being taken by AI researchers in a recent survey. Asked whether “scaling up” current AI approaches could lead to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), or a general purpose AI that matches or surpasses human cognition, an overwhelming 76 percent of respondents said it was “unlikely” or “very unlikely” to succeed. 

Published in a new report, the findings of the survey, which queried 475 AI researchers and…