I still remember when they came out with the 3d dancing baby, blew my mind much more than deepseek, it even played air guitar!
Who remembers LISP being new?
Also have SMALLTALK-80 book with it's railtrack diagrams of syntax on the inside covers.
What's really interesting about the AI mania we're in is that no one has shown that what we have now will get to AGI and how. We have great models that simulate reasoning, but how close are they?
How do we measure their quality? Benchmarks? Tooling?
The current "leaders" in this field are defining it to be whatever they think they can achieve by adding compute.
I know I have "general intelligence", but can I prove it to you (or anyone else)? Not really, but in my solipsistic world, I don't have to.
Maybe we should set some definitions before trying to "get there" when we don't where "there" is.
Unfortunately, I don't think there are too many of those folks left today. Guesstimating, the people who remembers lisp being new must be around 85-90 today?