I’m fascinated by the way AI and robotics is developing counter to many people’s expectations. In particular, science fiction has left us with some very ingrained dystopian ideas that people struggle to think differently from.
One of those very prevalent ideas is that AI and robotics will be tightly controlled by a tiny number of people and be a very rare resource. All the indications are that the exact opposite is happening.
Free open source AI is the equal of the closed source efforts that investors have pumped hundreds of billions of dollars into. Is the same trend happening with robotics?. While there will always be premium models like Ferraris and Lamborghinis, with the people to afford them, I wonder if the future will be dominated by huge numbers of widely owned, cheap robots?