We are still in the early stages of AI, what about 5-10 years from now?
“We are still in the early stages of AI, what about 5-10 years from now?”
You are exactly right. So many people cannot see beyond the tips of their own noses when thinking about technical innovation. It’s weird because most everybody on FR lived through the computer and electronic communications revolution. Think back to where computers and communications were in 1970 or 1980.
I played a lot of games with my son like that when he was growing up. We would think about what the world was like when his great grand parents lived and what they witnessed. Then the same for his grandparents and for his own mom & dad. My own great grandfather was an entrepreneur in battery energy storage around 1900. He owned factories manufacturing batteries for urban rail transport, boat transport and communications and became quite wealthy.
Those games with my son gave him a good sense of the grand scope of technical innovation, its introduction, and how it impacted peoples’ lives.
I’m reading a book right now about the history of short-line railroads in the West. There were few people in California in 1849. By 1852, a state census found 200,000 people in California. Plans for railroads started being put into action in 1853 and short line construction started in 1854. Then the transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869, only 15 years later! Could those people in 1854 even conceive of a transcontinental railroad connecting California to the east? Probably not.
You are right as usual.
But with the pace of things it might be...
We are still in the early stages of AI, what about 5-10 months from now?