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It's actually sad how much AI has either not improved life at all or actively made it worse from the perspective of the average person:

Your car is still the same. Your dishwasher is still the same. The train you take to work is still the same and never comes on time. Fuel is more expensive. The roads are still congested with traffic. Your kids are (probably) doing worse at school. Food costs more. Houses cost more. Rent is higher. Buying a computer or a PS5 is more expensive. Politics is still full of mentally unstable people. The environment is getting worse. You will still die of heart disease or cancer. Food quality is worse. Your kids can't find work. Wealth inequality is accelerating.

But hey...on the flip side...a lot of people are rapidly building software (that nobody is using), and AI is solving mathematics problems (that nobody - including mathematicians - wanted it to solve)

Imagine what a "country of geniuses in a datacenter" will be able to do? Apparently...nothing.

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