AI Science Companies: Evidence AGI Is Near

People routinely ask, “If AI labs believed AGI was imminent, why are they doing X?” Sometimes this skepticism is valid. But consider OpenAI launching Sora 2 as a TikTok-style feed of AI-generated videos[1]. On the surface, it seems like a waste of developer time, and critics argue it makes the world a worse place to live[13]. Yet the underlying video generation requires modeling physics, space,…