Most of articles like this one, in the the spirit of Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence, seem to border on actual futurism and philosophy/idealism. The common th

Most of articles like this one, in the the spirit of Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence, seem to border on actual futurism and philosophy/idealism. The common theme is the self-improving AI in the context of some reward-function, but they lack the details about how it can be achieved based on our current knowledge, even if we extrapolate the computing power. Before that time comes, our economy will be already hugely changed thanks to the narrow super-AIs. I think it's much more interesting (and alarming to the general public) to try to imagine different ways this could play out in the next 20 years.