Comment by kypro

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

I suspect the real world change is going to happen unbelievably rapidly and isn't far off. Right we don't quite have the hardware to embody AI in a generally useful way, but that's coming fast.

Within a couple of years arguably any task that requires just knowledge or intelligence is something you'd be better off giving to an AI than a human. And decent humanoid robots are maybe a decade behind that.

In the same way people growing up in the mid 1900s saw rapid changes in their way of life with planes and cars replaces boats and horses, we'll see something similar with robots replacing human labours. Right now we're still in the phase where people don't think humans will ever be able to control flying machines and that cars are reliable and slow. Things will change.