Also no FTL, no perpetual motion machines, no time machines. And no cold fusion, and it looks like no room temperature superconductors.<p>The problem isn't "no <x>" the problem is the extreme hype and FOMO in people who want to believe "<x> is around the corner" and build systems, belief, money, ponzi schemes, you-name-it predicated on <x> but, as you note, AGI isn't happening.<p>Taking LLMs and generative systems as evidence of emergent behaviour is taking fools gold in the rock for signs of the valuable stuff.<p>Ask yourself: How many times have you downvoted people like me who say "it's not happening" because of your emotional ties to the belief it is happening.