[belugacat]

Thinking you can develop AGI - if such a thing actually can exist - in an academic vacuum, and not by having your AI rubber meet the road through a plethora of real world business use cases strikes me as extreme hubris.

… I guess that makes me a product person?

[threeseed]

Or the obvious point that if you're not interested in business use cases then where are you going to get the money for the increasingly exorbitant training costs.

[DebtDeflation]

Exactly this. Where do these guys think the money to pay their salaries let alone fund the vast GPU farm they have access to comes from?