This schism is a theological matter because, according to nearly every expert I've ever interviewed across a decade of covering this topic, we are nowhere near achieving artificial general intelligence, in no small part because we have such a poor understanding of how to build any intelligence—natural or artificial. Altman himself has said he wouldn’t put a date on when we’ll achieve artificial general intelligence.
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