'AI Is Like Electricity' Undersells It: AI Can Autonomously Move Atoms
danfaggella · x · 2026-11-06
danfaggella argues the "AI is like electricity/the internet" framings massively undersell it: those technologies laid the bones and sinews for AI but couldn't autonomously circulate atoms, energy, and information better than humanity can. AI can — a different stratosphere.
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