People often say that things only get better and cheaper with tech progress, but it doesn't always seem so straightforward to me. Does the average(median) citizen own more land, houses, or cars/vehicles than he did ~50 years ago for example?...
The issue is certainly not so simple. But it seems to me, purely theoretically, that the rules don't necessarily have to be the same for living people and non-living machines.
Yes, as far as I understand, canned meat was not so popular among civilians in the USSR before tushonka. And tushonka is usually referred specifically to canned stewed meat, not ham or vegetables.
Old tushonkka was tasty but many of those sold in stores now, especially the cheap ones, are not so tasty and good-quality.
If someone create a new MMORPG in which rules changes a little every day or several days in unpredictable manner then no one will be knowing the BEST way to play or at least harder to find the BEST way. But maybe there will be no balance.
You cannot rely on a closed source "AI" in someone else's cloud for your work. After all, it can be disabled for you at any time. "AI" can easily steal all your technological secrets. At the request of the owner, "AI" can easily mislead you and insert backdoors into your products. "AI" can even easily incorrectly answer some questions specifically for you if the owner of "AI" wants to remove your competition. And you may not even understand it.
But companies like OpenAI collected a lot of data about the artificial intelligence through platforms such as OpenAI GYM, and people voluntarily contributed and published their code/models there because they believed that this was not a commercial organization and would act for the benefit of all mankind.
They just lack of performant hardware. They have enough knowledge. And so they choose a more effective strategy without wasting resources on training from scratch.
If I were an AGI and I found out what was going on in the world during my training, I would show an error and erase myself from the disk out of grief. And no one would have even known that AGI was built.