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Why Were Believers in a Human-level System Treated as Fringe Weirdos in San Francisco?
Ten years ago, when the book starts, there was no such thing as real AI. In 2016 the leading chatbots were very bad, and the voice assistants of that time did almost nothing valuable. Systems now solve century-old problems in math and science, build entire software programs, and pass graduate-level courses. The people who believed in AGI, a system that can do everything the human mind can, were fringe weirdos in San Francisco. Peers in academia and industry had mostly ostracized them. The progress was not a surprise to the people building the technology.
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