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When I think those kinds of questions, I inevitably realize it's all emergent behavior. People do things locally in their own self-interests. If more people were employed in space exploration, there would be more ai applied to space exploration. But more people are involved in fragrances, so you get this.

Why isn't AI involved in automatic hand washing and toilet flushing, which has not reached state of the art. because people buy a new toilet maybe once a decade, even though the benefit to society in hygiene and water savings would be large.




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