Because the true goal is AGI, not just nice little tools to solve subsets of problems. The first company which can achieve human level intelligence will just be able to self-improve at such a rate as to create a gigantic moat

There’s no evidence that the current architectures will reach AGI levels.

Of course OpenAI wants you to think they will rule the world but if we’ve reached the plateau of LLM capabilities regardless of the amount of compute we throw at them then local models will soon be good enough.

> The first company which can achieve human level intelligence will just be able to...

They say prostitution is the oldest industry of all. We know how to achieve human-level intelligence quite well. The outstanding challenge is figuring out how to produce an energy efficient human-level intelligence.

There's no particular reason to assume a human level AI would be able to improve itself any better than the thousands of human level humans that designed it.