Anecdotal as it may be, an investor in a company I used to work for was from Wuhan. He paid $80k USD to get out of the country in December 2019. They knew it was bad then and anyone who could was fleeing.
Alright I'll admit when I'm hilariously out of my league.
The point of the post was mostly "people are state machines too" and arguing we don't even know what we are, how will we evaluate AI? Google was giving me actual results every time I searched, and my pattern-matching-happy brain went along with it :D
I spent a few hours trying to build a quantum markov chain. Working theory was that directing the phase when words appear in the same sentence meant interference would cancel out different meanings of a word.
Then I loaded a Dr Seuss book and `cirq` tried to allocate 64 Petabytes. It doesn't even matter at that point.
I dealt with tech inspections and people would try to go on the track with worn out brakes and suspension all the time. Which is dumb but. So are people.
Even getting to that point means you've gone through the local amateur licence process, shown up to training days, etc.
You have to prove to a bunch of gatekeeping boomers you deserve to race.