Most of the tools we use end up cartelized. There are 3-5 major OS kernels, browser engines, office suites, smartphone families, search engines, web servers, and databases. I’d suspect the odds are pretty high that we have one AI with 40%+ market share and a real chance we’ll have an AI market where the market leader has 80%+ market share (and the attendant huge fraction of development resources).
Most of the tools we use end up cartelized. There are 3-5 major OS kernels, browser engines, office suites, smartphone families, search engines, web servers, and databases. I’d suspect the odds are pretty high that we have one AI with 40%+ market share and a real chance we’ll have an AI market where the market leader has 80%+ market share (and the attendant huge fraction of development resources).