TLDR: U.S. AI growth is hitting a wall because the power grid is weak and slow to expand. China has huge surplus power and uses data centers to soak it up. State-led, long-term planning gives China an edge, and the U.S. will fall behind unless it changes.
I’m no expert, but reading/listening to stuff by Ed Zitron and Paris Marx, I’m extremely skeptical that antyhing remotely resembling AGI will be made in my lifetime, these LLMs are mostly a party trick that can’t replicate good work or judgement. If anything, these techbros are fanning the flames of the hype simply to get more funding.