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by dcminter·10mo ago·view on hn ↗
> we are on the cusp of intelligent machines

That's an extremely speculative view that has been fashionable at several points in the last 50 years.

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How often in the last 50 years have those machines done what these machines do?
On every occasion you could have made exactly the same point.
Define "do" in this context. If you mean hardware-accelerated matmul, then machines have been doing that for half a century.
Things like getting gold in the math olympiad and 120 on iq tests are kinda cuspy and not been there in 49 of the last 50 years.