Opinion | The Government Knows A.G.I. Is Coming

For the past couple of months, I’ve been having this strange experience where person after person, independent of each other, from AI labs, from government, has been coming to me and saying, it’s really about to happen. Artificial general intelligence, AGI AGI, AGI. That is really the Holy Grail of AI. AI systems that are better than almost all humans at almost all tasks. And before they thought, maybe take five or 10 years, 10 or 15 years. Now they believe it’s coming inside of 2 to…