I think it's to lower tech wages. If they can get more people into the field, they can lower their wages. It's when H1 visas were limited that all these companies started saying more women should be in tech.
They want the supply of workers to exceed the demand, to keep wages down. Greed is...
"It's not about manipulating information faster, but it's about manipulating matter faster" They should have started with that.
I can see it maybe useful for chemistry and biochemistry. It's not about making a better computer.
Microsoft has spent the last two decades screwing Windows gamers in favor of the Xbox. The smart thing to do is to get as far away from Microsoft as possible.
Then there's the economics. PCs keep getting cheaper, but Windows doesn't. Windows is now the most expensive component of a budget PC...
AI is still so far away from being a threat. Robots are still for the most part clumsy, stupid, and uncoordinated. AI is still completely lacking in anything remotely resembling human intelligence, and has no free will. The best robot AI's in the world are still massively outperformed by simple...