Source? From my knowledge, we do not "think in language", but we learn to finetune our thinking to be expressed in the form of words. Unless you consider pictures as language, after all "A picture is worth a thousand words"..
I mean. “Yes”, but no, not really.
I think one day this kind of system will probably exist in some form, I don't see any fundamental reason why not but to believe fraudsters like Amodei and Altman telling you that in 6 months world will possibly end and the AIs will take over, it's just nonsense fed to boomer investors who have 0 clue.
Many crypto scammers have pivoted to AI because there are new useful idiots to scam now that crypto is not doing too hot.
Frankly the whole world is just scam after scam nowadays, they noticed that the Elon Musk strategy of continuously promising something "the next year" actually works so they are all doing it stringing people along.
You could be wrong, hopefully. I'll just remain optimistic.
It's good that critical thinking still exists to keep us all grounded.
Edit: I think you meant to replace AGI with ASI.
What we have now is approaching the ability to solve problems generally with considerable effort but super intelligence is definitely out of reach for the time being.