The real bottleneck: confusion & skeuomorphism
Our main bottleneck isn't insufficient intelligence or infrastructure - it's confusion about what we should be building with AI. We're trapped in skeuomorphic thinking, viewing machine intelligence through the lens of human intelligence. In McLuhan terms, the first things we’re building with the new media (machine intelligence) are things we already build in the old media (human intelligence). The television just arrived and we’re still just televising radio broadcasts… we’re putting the yellow pages on the internet.