There are a lot of story beats and character motivations in this game that feel like they were ordered off a menu of tropes

It’s all very written-by-committee feeling… like very tropey and safe, with no earnestness

Long puff piece in the Guardian today about the dizzying speed of AI development that's big on 'the momentum to AGI cannot be stopped!' 'this much investment can't be wrong',and 'how young and clever they all are', but fails of course to name a single general application that is making money.