[rchaud]

>The trillion-dollar corporations are leading the way, but it's doubtful that they will get to control what sort of AI gets developed over the longer term

Google and Apple have replaced the concept of a 'computer' with dumb clients called 'phones' and 'tablets' in less than 20 years. The corporations have already won - B2C AI will be closer to Clippy than offer any of the high-minded use cases discussed here.

Whatever open-source, on-premise AI available to the individual is going to be a hard-to-use, Linux-only mess that will scare away the average person.