I suppose this is as good a thread as any to again make the claim that I don't think AI will be anything but a toy before AR is mainstream. For whatever reason

I suppose this is as good a thread as any to again make the claim that I don't think AI will be anything but a toy before AR is mainstream. For whatever reason right now the fashionable thing in tech is to pretend we don't have incredibly sophisticated and powerful meat brains in our heads and the best, most economical, and most feasible way forward is to completely eliminate it from every equation and replace it with silicon. When in truth the melding of silicon (binary) computers is easier and results in something much more powerful (and much sooner) than just silicon. I'm fully aware computers will eventually outpace us. But the economic and human potential of human/computer augmentation is enormous and will likely last decades or even centuries in the "near" term. At some point we'll shed our obsessive fascination with denigrating humans as "old'n'busted" and remember just how incredible people can be.