simon_brooke, @Eceni 'Artificial Intelligence' research used to be my day job, although I'm not really up to speed with current work.
I do believe that Artificial General Intelligence is possible in the very long term; I believe that Alan Turing's paper On Computable Numbers proves this.
But I also believe we're a VERY long way from it, and that #StochasticParrots will not prove a fruitful line of approach.
Semantic models are necessary!