Have We Already Stunted AI Growth?

If we really want an AGI then, perhaps, we shouldn’t keep restricting it.

“Image generated using OpenAI’s DALL·E.”

I’m a bit conflicted about the current direction that AI research, and more recently implementation, is taking so today let’s take a look at this with what was originally a short, but rapidly became a long, train of thought almost philosophical discussion about what it is that’s worrying me.