Are We Moving Toward Artificial General Intelligence, or Just Better Tools?

We are moving toward 'Artificial Narrow Superintelligence' (ANSI), not AGI (https://www.cnas.org/publications/reports/the-myth-of-agi). The military isn't trying to build a robot that can write poetry and also fly a fighter jet. We are building discrete systems that are vastly superhuman in one specific domain (e.g., drone swarm coordination). AGI is a civilian academic obsession. The real-world trajectory is a proliferation of highly specialised, hyper-competent 'idiot savants' that are network...