Thus, if OpenAI already got there, and the board found out... Microsoft would have a very VERY strong incentive to ouster the board, and never, ever have Skynet, or whatever, declared an AGI. And then hush it up forever.
MSFT is going all in, dropping all pretense of OpenAI ever being viewed as a non-profit.
It's insane how many people are seemingly forgetting Elon's lawsuit.
What if it never arrives?
What if "AGI" is another narrative to fleece investor money to believe in something just to sell out of for as long as possible until they run out of money, investors to throw lots of money on or the lawsuits make it even harder for the company to continue?
Given the appearance of a Memory prosthesis for LLMs with MemGPT, all the components are in place. Sure, the moat will continue to shrink if trends continue, but we're there already, in my opinion.
Artificial: man-made
General: able to transfer knowledge between domains and work on problem domains it was not trained on
Intelligence: efficiently solves problems
We've had A.G.I. since 2017.