I don’t think AI will be incredibly expensive. There is a tendency to believe that hard problems require expensive and laborious solutions.
Building a flying machine was a hard problem. An impossible problem. But two guys from a bicycle shop built the first airplane on their own. A lot of hard math problems are solved by lone geniuses. Or by the iterative work of a lot of lone geniuses building on each other. But rarely by large organized projects.
And there is a ton of gain in building smarter and smarter AIs. You can use them to automate more and more jobs, or do things even humans can’t do.
The robots in interstellar were AGI. They could fully understand English and work in unrestricted environments. They are already at, or very close to, human level AI. But there’s no reason advancement has to stop at human level AI. People will continue to tweak it, run it on bigger and faster computer, and eventually have it work on it’s own code.
I don’t think AI will be incredibly expensive. There is a tendency to believe that hard problems require expensive and laborious solutions.
Building a flying machine was a hard problem. An impossible problem. But two guys from a bicycle shop built the first airplane on their own. A lot of hard math problems are solved by lone geniuses. Or by the iterative work of a lot of lone geniuses building on each other. But rarely by large organized projects.
And there is a ton of gain in building smarter and smarter AIs. You can use them to automate more and more jobs, or do things even humans can’t do.
The robots in interstellar were AGI. They could fully understand English and work in unrestricted environments. They are already at, or very close to, human level AI. But there’s no reason advancement has to stop at human level AI. People will continue to tweak it, run it on bigger and faster computer, and eventually have it work on it’s own code.