Not one, but two articles on AGI this past week!

Artificial General Intelligence is Here, and it's Useless
On why the potential or threat of ‘artificial general intelligence’ is most often overstated

Worry about present-day AI first, and far off AGI hypotheticals second
The whole debate about existential risks AI poses to humanity in the far off future is a huge distraction

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