OpenAI releases one dud and suddenly people come out of the woodwork to trash them.

I agree that OpenAI's endless hyping about AGI seems pretty unrealistic, but let's take a breather here. There are no major research projects where you don't run into setbacks and failures before you reach your goals.

And even if they never really progress beyond where they are today with their current models, just bringing down the cost could open up a lot of doors for useful applications.