Yes, all of the people involved live in a delusion bubble. Their economic and social existence depends, at this point, on making increasingly bombastic and eschatological claims about AGI. By the standards of normal human psychological function, these people are completely insane.

Definitely interesting to watch from the perspective of human psychology but there is no real content there and there never was.

The stuff around Mythos is almost identical to O1. Leaks to the media that AGI had probably been achieved. Anonymous sources from inside the company saying this is very important and talking about the LLM as if it was human. This has happened multiple times before.

There are those of us who have been into the AGI eschatology since the 90s after following in Kurzweil’s work.

so just understand there’s a lot of of us “insane” people out there and we’re making really insane progress toward the original 1955 AI goals.

We’re going to continue to work on this no matter what.