So the popular opinion way back on ai was the present nlp model could surpass human intelligence with enough data and tweaking

Honestly I don't think that's what it ever was for

If it's predicting text it's basically just generating an accepted answer in small units.

I saw that damn repeat news story in this lovely place some dumb assholes robbed me a few times way back or tried to hurt me and got fed to someone's pet and I'm wondering why we couldn't have just moved on

I bet whatever they would have thought up next for a different faculty being represented would have fit ij nicely to larger ecosystem