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Nah. Everybody is talking about ai. Everybody is using it. It's by far the most popular new tool human beings are using currently. As popular as mobile phones or spoons. And maybe as disruptive as the steam engines. AI companies are becoming the largest software companies on the planet. Everything points into that direction. Trillions of dollars are waiting in the market to be collected.
> Everybody is talking about ai. Everybody is using it. Please take a moment to step outside the tech bubble. Neither my neighbor (a hair stylist) nor the carpenter fixing up her kitching cabinets are "using" AI. They might get Gemini text when googling something, though they often scroll past it because they often don't trust it. And they get lots of fake videos when scrolling their youtube which increasingly annoys…
The capability is there for robotics to handle these kinds of repetitive tasks from a long term view. They're just statistical processes on a fundamental level.
In general, a lot of this shit that we do can be represented this way. It's just a question of where the incentives are to apply it first and how many economic cycles it'll take to get there.
Also, who controls the training data will matter a lot more. I.e. the sort of "ancestral knowledge" within different enterprises and how they deliver on respective business goals.