not_ai_yes_pr

Not an American nor am I familiar with american laws. I'm curious to know whether tech companies that manipulate content to increase the time spent on an app/device can be scrutinised under the above act? Isn't spending hours and hours on an app/device basically an addiction?

I share the sentiment with you. Majority of the 'research' from OpenAI has been scaling up the known algorithms and almost all the models have been built on top of research from outside of OpenAI. My assessment is that OpenAI is currently not the leader in the field but they want to get there by attracting talent through PR and money, which IMHO is a fine strategy.

What makes you think AGI is even possible? Most of current 'AI' is pattern recognition/pattern generation. I'm skeptical about the claims of AGI even being possible but I am confident that pattern recognition will be tremendously useful.