Strong opinion, loosely held — over the course of the next 50 years AI deployed via hardware will have an order of magnitude more impact than AI deployed purely via software. 

Think industrial production, manufacturing, energy, transportation. All orders of magnitude bigger than software.

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Was a commonly held belief in the first waves of AI in 60’s and 70’s - check out the search term “embodiment”!