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Re:November 2026 Claude Fable 5.2 Scores 65 on Artificial An... by CamperBob2 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:12PM (#50444823)
Explain exactly how Altman's claim that they are "on the cusp of AGI" satisfies your statement that an unspecified "they" have been "claiming AGI for ages."
Re:November 2026 Claude Fable 5.2 Scores 65 on Artificial An... by rico735 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @05:59PM (#50447515)
The "they" is mostly OpenAI. Sam Altman, and several credulous boosters quoting him, have been talking about it being close since GPT4.

You said "or otherwise", and Sam's claim in the post I linked to is that it will be here some time in the next 54 days. You looking forward to that?

I'll happily retract that point you cherry picked if you want, as admittedly it looks like "AGI is just round the corner" has been the claim, rather than it is already here.

You can now show your evidence that the AI companies are actively working on positive things for society like curing cancer, which you are so sure is happening soon that you think funding any other technology in that area is a waste of money. They must be getting pretty far with that, huh?

Re:November 2026 Claude Fable 5.2 Scores 65 on Artificial An... by CamperBob2 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @07:25PM (#50448256)
Useful AI is like 2 years old at this point. Chill out.

What have you done to cure cancer or prove the Riemann conjecture, anyway? Oh, wait, you answered that one already. Guess we're done here.

Re:November 2026 Claude Fable 5.2 Scores 65 on Artificial An... by rico735 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @05:29AM (#50451785)
Two logical fallacies (one a repeat) and "we're done". I'll take it that you incredible statement had no evidence, then.

You do know that if there was any evidence that the AI companies planned to be a public service instead of a tool for technofeudalism, people might agree with you that it's a good thing.

AI has also done nothing to cure cancer, and the maths proofs it brute force had little use to mathematicians without the required context.