[roenxi]

It is amazing to think that people have already forgotten about things like the introduction of smartphones and the internet. The military applications of AI could be civilisation shattering (once someone wins a war with a fully mechanised army all bets are off as to what happens to democracy as a political system and the human race in general). Apart from that risk, there is no reason yet to think that this will be more transformative than what we've seen in the past.

[wslh]

We forget about the "invention" of open source, Linux et al (e.g. GCC, Python, Curl, etc) that makes it possible to run those Androids, macOS, and infrastructure and zillions of devices around the world. Don't forget ;-)