Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI predictions, 10 years later

The article revisits AI predictions from Kevin Kelly's 2016 book The Inevitable, including that by 2026 Google's main product will be AI not search, that an oligarchy of a few general-purpose cloud intelligences will emerge, that AI will resemble AWS, and that most AI will be special-purpose software brains.

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