There's a peculiar belief spreading throughout the tech world, particularly among AI researchers and big tech companies, that we're on the cusp of achieving AGI—artificial general intelligence. And some people are so confident in this forecast that they're recalibrating their entire business strategies around it. But as is often the case with technological prophecy, there's an essential gap between the excitement of potential and the gravity of reality.
AI's journey has been an exhilarating ride so far. We’ve seen remarkable progress in machine learning, with AI systems now performing at or above human
