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What does the market for VC funding have to do with AI?

Technologies develop where they can earn a reasonable return on investment. If AI is developing first as facial recognition, instead of cow or everything recognition, it's because that is where the money is, relative to the amount of investment required. The return on an everything recognition AI investment might be higher, but the investment required would be higher still, implying a poor ROI.



So you are saying that since there is not enough money in it, no one made AI? And if there was money in it someone would?

I say that no one made AI because no one knows how, and money is irrelevant.




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