It's estimated to be about $250m minimum just to get started to have the technical and server capability needed to think about creating your own AI program, let alone have a working one.

That's a high bar to entry – there are loads of startups claiming to be creating their 'own AI' but it's nonsense. They'll be using APIs from the big boys that can afford to create effective class leading systems and bolting on what they then will tout as their 'USP' to an uneducated, unsuspecting commercial sector.

That's something else to watch out for in this next phase – the crypto/NFT style hype bubble and proliferation of 'with AI' being sold to anyone that will listen, because of FOMO and ignorance. It's like how data scientists were viewed a few years ago, like gods. People within businesses didn't understand what they did but they saw everyone else hiring them so jumped on the bandwagon. In reality most entry level data science is no more complex than feeding data into the black box (modelling) until you get something you think you can sell as useful or unexpected back to the company you're working for. There's no genius involved, as currently its impossible to know why or how the result was created.

Chatbots are still way off perfect but even now they're passable and can take a lot of work away from a human. Edge cases still need to be handled by a person, sure, but they're edge cases. Sales will end up being a small pool of people that handle escalated interactions where the AI fails, with everything else being fully automated. That happens now, just with a bigger pool of people as it's not quite there yet.

Put it this way, bash AI at your peril – this is the worst it's ever going to be. It's only going to improve, and fast.

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

Yep, it's a 'brave new world' and a scary one.

The competition between states will obviously involve dark uses, which have the potential to be very destructive.......It'll soon be AI against AI.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Survival of the fittest no, the cleverest no, the ones most adaptable to change yes.
The meek shall inherit the earth as we as the minions will adapt. We’ve had to forever. The top won’t know s***, like a footballer with an agent stopping playing. Can’t pay a phone bill!

Having a little think about it, the most at risk jobs are in tech/computing which is rather ironic. Real AI will, of course, write its own code.

Red and Blue Army!

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Red and Blue Army!

No way, remember Robocop.

Red and Blue Army!