What's it good for?

I've been looking for Artificial General Intelligence for years and haven't found anything close. Last time I looked [1] there was no sign of any Artificial General Intelligence. When I first looked [2], eight years ago, there was also no sign of any thinking machines. And today there still isn't. We're much closer, a recent article by engineers at Apple [3] hints at where the next breakthroughs are needed. The paper "AI:2027" makes a spirited argument that AGI will be here in two years. [5] Regardless of all the hype out there (mostly pushed by people who plan to make money off of selling general intelligence) the actual evidence is scant. Pattern matching Machine Learning using vector databases and transformers is getting better exponentially, it shows lots of competence, but little understanding... just like evolution. But I thought I'd take a day or two and go looking again. It's been eight years since my first journey and things have really gotten...