In our series about the AI Critic, I interview long-standing researchers and practitioners in the AI sector—voices who have worked with artificial intelligence in the advent of machine learning and its evolution to deep learning, which has laid the foundation for current large language models.

These experts in their field have experienced mainstream pushback against current general-purpose technologies as the path towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). We discuss their experiences in these debates and their perspectives on the unshakeable stances taken by those who oppose their views.

I spoke with Mounir Shita, a 30-year veteran AGI researcher and founder of EraNova Global, a physics-first program of work on the nature of intelligence. His “Theory of General Intelligence” models a goal as a physically realizable future state. I’ve known Mounir for over a decade, and his early research in AGI—at the time, they just called it AI—does not jibe with current AI systems.

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