> I think it's not so surprising that it isn't necessarily immediately radically transforming every industry everywhere.

Computers and the internet didn’t radically change every industry everywhere. But every industry everywhere uses computers and the internet, and more pertinently, they pay good money for it.

AI doesn’t need to transform the world, it just needs to pay off the sizeable investments in data centers.

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aDyslecticCrow 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Does AI transform the world more than; - CAD software - Office software - Spreadsheet software - Finance software - Digital banking software - Computer graphics software - The entire US national fiber grid

Cause at the current rate and scope of data center investments; they have to transform the world more than... every other software system we've come up with until this points combined; to justify their cost.

	▲	mr_toad 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They have to transform the world more than whatever the bond rate is right now, (which admittedly is increasing). I'm not sure that that's greater than office software, digital banking etc. But I don't think it's as high a bar as some people think.

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datsci_est_2015 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> But every industry everywhere uses computers and the internet, and more pertinently, they pay good money for it.

Do they? Compute and internet access are orders of magnitude cheaper than the software that runs on it.