AI expert says "in three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being."

The AI expert? Marvin Minsky in 1970.

With a new character called “Izzy”, the cast names have more ‘z’s than a scrabble championship.

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Same.

Unfortunately (IMO) conferences in AI such as NeurIPS and ICLR play the role played top journals in other fields.

Is "incremental" used as a paper-killer term in reviews in other fields?

I appreciate your overall point, but just to push back on "this is such a new field" -- AI as a field has been around for at least 70 years, and universities have been training AI researchers for most of that time.

This is not to say that such "role-playing" can't be dangerous in and of itself. In fact, role-playing is a key method for AI "jail-breaking". But that's not the same thing as a "survival drive".

It's a difficult and uncertain time for science in the U.S. and worldwide, so communicating the ideas and results of science to the general public has never been more essential.

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