With just incrementalism there’s still enough value to extract from the current methods of deep learning to propel a small country into a golden age. Leaps and bounds are needed to get to AGI, but winter comes when there’s no more money on the table, not because we can’t reach our scifi fantasies.
This is frustrating and borderline cringe-inducing to read. YC clearly has their eyes on tapping introvert talent. That's a good thing. What’s not is trying to use the same stale tools and programs to catch them. Hint: this is not the crowd that will be comfortable talking on camera, about themselves, answering such bombastic questions. Try again.
>> There will be several answers, [...], through new media (e.g. games) that look a lot like shows but are more interactive
Some genres will not be replaced soon by games. The archtypes of How I Met your Mother are the same as in Friends, and they serve to appease our loneliness and self worth. The 'entertainment' TV Shows and Movies are our fantasies coming real in front of our eyes. While action movies are clearly replaced, fantasies on the Social level are a tougher problem we are a long way from solving.