I think you are on to something. Chasing AGI is - I believe - ultimately useless endeavour, but we can already use the existing tools we have in ingenious and creative ways. And no I don’t mean endless barrage of AI lofi hip hop or the same ”cool” album cover with random kanji that all of them have. For instance, it is pretty amazing to have a private tutor which with you can discuss why Charles XII of Sweden ultimately failed in his war against Russia or why roughly 30% of people seems to have a personality that leans toward authoritanianism - this is how people have learned since the very beginning of language. But conversation is an art and you get out from it what you bring into it. It also does not give you a readymade result which you can immediatedly capitalise on, which is what investors want, but what could and can ultimately be useful to humanity.

However, almost all models (worst is ChatGPT) are made virtually useless in this respect, since they are basically sycophantic yesmen - why on earth does an ”autocorrect on steroids” pretend to laugh at my jokes?

Next step is not to built faster models or throw more computing power at them, bit to learn to play the piano.