You all should allow yourselves a periodic reality check. Many of you are living in such an insulated bubble. To be frank, some of the more extreme AI promoters seem to suffer from a form of mass delusion, desperate to believe the very narratives they are peddling. I am not an AI skeptic in the general sense (I don't even think that @atmoio is), but I am firmly skeptical regarding AI consciousness and the timeline for AGI. I say this as someone who has spent the last three years working ten hour