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Artificial General Intelligence and ChatGPT

The Wikipedia report on artificial intelligence - AI in July 2023, seen as an introduction to artificial general intelligence - AGI , in the last paragraph of its introductory section observes that the term artificial intelligence has been criticized for overhyping AI’s true technological capabilities. The present text is intended to specify a few details of my criticism. The second paragraph of the very same introductory section writes about AI’s “several waves of optimism”: Artificial intelligence was founded as an academic discipline in 1956, and in the years since it has experienced several waves of optimism, followed by disappointment and the loss of funding (known as an " AI winter "), followed by new approaches, success, and renewed funding. AI research has tried and discarded many different approaches, including simulating the brain, modeling human problem solving , formal logic , large databases of knowledge , and imitating animal behavior. In the first decades of the 21st century, highly mathematical and statistical machine learning has dominated the field, and this technique has proved highly successful, helping to solve many challenging problems throughout industry and

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