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David Luan, head of Amazon’s San Francisco AGI lab, is leaving to work on something new. Newer than AGI, that is, which is saying something considering that’s still nonexistent.

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Wait, the guy in charge of trying to reach AGI is leaving to “cook up something new”??? AGI doesn’t exist, he was literally already trying to cook up something new.

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