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The Western obsession with creating a "general" artificial intelligence will be its own undoing. It will stop itself when it eventually is forced to recon with the material realities of building infinite data centers and scraping infinite data from infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters. Task-specific AI will eventually win out, simply because it's actually real and not an imaginary god machine.
Have you ever heard of the bitter lesson? Your suggestion has repeatedly been shown not to work. People want it to work so bad but the data doesn't bear it out: generalist systems beat specialists time and time again.
This doesn't make ai good for society, but specialist systems isn't the right path if what you want is things to be able to do hard tasks
You're just making shit up? A tool that does one thing well is better than trying to make an omnitool that does everything.
If you need a hammer, you don't need a hammer that is also a screw driver, knife, spatula, hair brush, plunger, and protein shake.
Citations needed.
Oh, it's far worse than that. They're going whole-hog on AI here too. Only...
...it's on a strict "prove your project or it gets cancelled" basis. There's none of this "let's just cram this down everybody's throat and see what sticks". AI projects, to get funded and permitted at all, have to establish what their goals are and what the failure criterion are. Without these there's no funding. With them, when, not if, the AI fucks up, the funding is cut and the project cancelled.
There's no doubling down on failure by pushing MOAR FAILURE!