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We are clearly closer than 20 years ago - o1 is an order of magnitude closer than anything in the mid-2000s.

Also I would think most people would consider AGI science fiction in 2004 - now we consider it a technical possibility which demonstrates a huge change.

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"Her" is from 2013. I came out of the cinema thinking "what utter bullshit, computers that talk like human beings, à la 2001" (*). And yes, in 2013 we weren't any closer to it than we were in 1968, when A Space Odyssey came out.

* To be precise, what seemed bs was "computers that talk like humans and it's suddenly a product on the market, and you have it on your phone, and yet everyone around act like it's normal and people still habe jobs!" Ah, I've been proven completely wrong.

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