An actual AI winter at this point is about as likely as society instantaneously collapsing.

An AI winter is not an actual, valid concern for anyone in the industry for the forseeable future.

I get wanting to have a critical discussion about this, but then when someone talks about exponential growth, you need to do better than parroting a talking point that mainstream journalists who have no idea what they are talking about spew out.

I'm all for critical discussion, but talking about another actual AI winter like the 70s or early 2000s is kind of a joke. I'm really surprised anyone with even a little bit of knowledge of what is going on in the industry would say something this out-of-touch.

And none of that is to say AGI is immenent, just that an AI winter is literally the most out-of-touch counterpoint you could possibly use.