Every other week we seem to get a tech CEO or some other bigwig telling us how great AI is and how revolutionary the AI era is going to be. But whenever they start talking about what exactly that will look like, I'm reminded of the frightening strength of historical variability and humanity's incapability of predicting it. Case and point, Google CEO Sundar Pichai's recent interview with The Verge.
The part of the interview that stuck out to me the most was when Pichai responded to a question from The Verge referencing the possibility that the web "will turn into a series of databases for various agents to go and ask questions to" rather than something we actually interact with.
