Recent developments in generative AI have brought us closer to realizing the vision of AGI. User-friendly generative AI interfaces like
ChatGPT have demonstrated impressive capabilities to understand human text prompts and answer questions on a limitless range of topics, although this is still all based on interpreting data that has been produced by humans. Image generation systems like
DALL-E have also upended the visual landscape, generating realistic images just from a scene description, again, based on work by humans.