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MostlyStable 23 days ago

The first electric motors in factories just replaced the previously existing steam engine. Power was still distributed throughout the factory through a central shaft and pullies to all the places that needed it. It took decades for the possibilities to get figured out and, more importantly, entirely new factories designed from the ground up around the idea that every machine could have it's own motor and power could be distributed via wires.

AI won't be "integrated" until something similar happens, and new businesses etc. are formed that take advantage of it in a way that can't simply be reversed to the old, pre-AI paradigm. I don't know what that will look like, but someone is going to figure it out and make successful companies with entirely new paradigms that are only made possible by AI.

At some point, every single factory was designed for electric motors, and going back became unthinkable.

-edit- also, the idea that a 5 year old tech that is still rapidly changing and developing deserves quotation marks around "new technology" is hilarious to me.