I mean, they sold us automation as this great thing that would bring the two day work week by 2000, solve poverty, solve malnutrition, &c. Now they're doing the same with """ai"""
If the undelying system is rotten whatever grows on top will be rotten too
I think actual real life is so complicated that we can't really guess what specific technological advancements will rocket us into silicon valley imagined utopia, we speculate but we don't have any way of accurately predicting this.
Will it be the self-driving car, humanoid robots, chat bots, Google search with adsense (tm)? Hard to say. Each new thing brings some positives and negatives but it really seems the bad has an uncanny ability to keep up with the good most of the time.
I can confidently predict that no technological advancement will bring us into that utopia. With our current level of tech, we could easily be there now. At this point we don't need engineering technology, we need social/political/economic reform.
