Well I didn't say Sam Altman is an idiot in general but he is an idiot when it comes to his beliefs. If you believe him literally with everything he says, he says sone buckwild things about the future, which mo scientist would agree with. But if you agree with his business decisions and the things he is funding or taking part in, he is also stupid. Yes he made a lot of money, but he is currently trying desperately to keep OpenAI afloat and his investments make it look like he partially believes either there's a big breakthrough into AGI or that somehow he can turn the company profitable, and currently everyone who takes some time to look into it understands that the probability is effectively zero.

And you should also look at my second quote in context. I said the scientific consensus (if you look at latest meta studies of the field of machine learning and neural networks, including all the small variants as well, we are plateauing. It's true, AI did a lot and it's not going away, but we are not reaching AGI anytime soon.

Why am I being such a stickler about this?

The question was specifically aimed at investments with a hint of confusion on the hype and thus more non-scientific fields. And I was basically saying, the investments are pretty far removed from actual capabilities. I was saying he is dumb, and this is dumb, because there's no real correlation between the AI Investments and it's current scientific state.