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How much is the cure/treatment for Parkinson’s worth? Or other intractable medical problems?

What about a device able to manipulate the containment field of a fusion reactor?

These are the reasons why everyone is buying the compute services - there are dozens of moonshot-grade problems that are suddenly possible to attempt. Many will fail, but whoever gets that one success will gain astronomical benefit.

AI has been mainstream for what, 4 years now?

if AI had such powerful results for developing novel solutions to problems such as medicine or material science, why have we not seen major improvements in those sectors?

the way AI is spoken about is that it’s “world impacting” and “sector disrupting”. the only disruption and impacts I’m seeing are in human rights violations, price gouging, privacy negation, and corruption.

if these are the results after only 4 years, I can only logically assume it will only get worse with more time and support.

The PC became mainstream in 1981. Why didn’t the Internet become big for another 10 years?