We’ve been working on digital computers for 70 years and AI is just one part of that. Computers are everywhere and suddenly AI is being crammed into every product, it seems. In the first 90 years of steam, steam engines did not suddenly appear everywhere. Outside of factories and mines, they essentially did not exist. No one had a steam engine in their home. Innovation happened very slowly, no equivalent of Moore’s law, no continuous year on year improvements to the basic tech
The products are different, sure. And there are more people participating now than then. But I'm not convinced that the two are that fundamentally different. Some technologies just take the better part of a century to mature.
