I am still glad they exist. If this thinking was very prevalent among AI pioneers (which it probably was for companies like Meta and Google, that's why failed to innovate here), we wouldn't have gotten revolutionary products like ChatGPT.
For me the fundamental question remains if it's a matter of the right input data (beyond language) or is there something about our brains that cannot be replicated by artificial neural architectures for it to discover new knowledge and invent new things for humankind.
For me the fundamental question remains if it's a matter of the right input data (beyond language) or is there something about our brains that cannot be replicated by artificial neural architectures for it to discover new knowledge and invent new things for humankind.