Scaling up is NOT sufficient to get us all the way to the top of Mount AGI (whatever the hell that is). We need other techniques, other architectures. What if Silicon Valley burrows deep into the rabbit's hole of Sunk Costs while various geniuses in India, China, Japan, and – yes, why not? – Africa come-up with new tech?
In 20 years the Silicon Valley Sphere of AI Influence is burning up Ziggawatts of nuclear-generated electricity to service its creaky old Mesozoic Dinosaur Models while the rest of the world is running circles around SVSAI with their Cenozoic Mammalian Speedsters powered by the sun, the wind, and those pesky Energizer batteries.
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