For what it's worth, the MIT Technology Review these days is considered to be closer to a "tech tabloid" than an actual news source. I personally would find it hard to believe (on gut instinct, nothing empirical) that AGI has been achieved before we have a general playbook for domain-specific SotA models. And I'm of the 'faction' that AGI can't come soon enough.
> hard to believe (on gut instinct, nothing empirical) that AGI has been achieved before we have a general playbook for domain-specific SotA models
I don't doubt he's serious in what he believes. I respect Ilya greatly as a researcher. Do you have notes or a time-point for me to listen to in that podcast? I bemoan the trend toward podcasts-as-references - even a time-point reference (or even multiple!) to the transcript would be greatly desirable!