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Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End (futurism.com)
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[–] silverhand@reddthat.com 7 points 18 hours ago

Misleading title. From the article,

Asked whether "scaling up" current AI approaches could lead to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), or a general purpose AI that matches or surpasses human cognition, an overwhelming 76 percent of respondents said it was "unlikely" or "very unlikely" to succeed.

In no way does this imply that the "industry is pouring billions into a dead end". AGI isn't even needed for industry applications, just implementing current-level agentic systems will be more than enough to have massive industrial impact.