Railroads need repair too? Not sure if it's every 4 years. Also, the trains I take to/from work are super slow because there is no money to upgrade.
I think we may not upgrade every 4 years, but instead upgrade when the AI models are not meeting our needs AND we have the funding & political will to do the upgrade.
Perhaps the singularity is just a sigmoid with the top of the curve being the level of capex the economy can withstand.
This is the thing with AI: We can always come up with a new architecture with different inputs & outputs to solve lots of problems that couldn't be solved before.
People equating AI with other single-problem-solving technologies are clearly not seeing the bigger picture.
AI is literally trained on by humans, used by humans. If humans are doing awful things with it, then it's because humans are awful right now.
I strongly feel this is related to the rise of fascism and wealth inequality.
We need a great conflict like WW2 to release this tension.