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Bill Gates feels Generative AI has plateaued, says GPT-5 will not be any better::The billionaire philanthropist in an interview with German newspaper Handelsblatt, shared his thoughts on Artificial general intelligence, climate change, and the scope of AI in the future.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Source on that quote from the Wright brothers? Because they never said that as far as I'm aware.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

They didn’t, AFAIK. It was a NYT article that quoted someone who made a similar prediction:

Once the Wright Brothers proved flight was possible, some assumed it was just a pointless rich play thing. Famed astronomer William H. Pickering said, “The expense would be prohibitive to any but the capitalist who could use his own yacht.”