[ReidG]

In the world of electronic hardware everything once had to be done with discrete components, and large computers were actually made that way.
Progressively there have been increases in the size and complexity of integrated circuits.
At each stage there have been cries that this will make humans obsolete. What has actually happened is that increasingly complex problems can be solved.
I expect that AI will continue to evolve and improve and become part of our lives. Perhaps Google may have to do a huge and rapid change of direction or perhaps they may simply fade away as many big companies have done in the past.


The fundamental problem facing AI remains that of doing what humans and other animals can do and analyze complex situations they have not been trained to work with and still come to useful conclusions.
ChatGPT if asked for an omelette recipe would probably supply quite a good one but it still has no idea what an omelette is. A school kid would