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Get the Full StoryTime and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. Even Einstein was not immune, claiming, There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable, just ten years before Enrico Fermi completed construction of the first fission reactor in Chicago. Shortly thereafter, the consensus switched to fears of an imminent nuclear holocaust. Similarly, today s experts warn that an artificial general intelligence AGI doomsday is imminent. Others retort that large language models LLMs have already reached the peak of their powers. It s difficult to argue with David Collingridge s influential This story continues at The Next WebShare: