Part of me thinks this is kinda optimistic, but then I think: "Given 5 years what will we see?"

I'm more interested in what AI can do for us in the real world. Getting lost in VR dreamscapes seems like an end case for Humanity. "They put their dream helmets on... and starved." would be the epitaph.

But the flip side is trillions of people living on Earth in VR environments, eating nutri paste and hanging out. That seems pretty good.

AIs that can do Dungeons & Dragons are only two steps away from running around the real world. But the question of what happens when we build an AI with as many neurons as a Human remain. Will it develop intuition? Be able to solve novel problems without 10 000 examples? The Google AI that could explain jokes is only a few months old and it feels like an eternity ago! Yan Lacun from Facebook AI says we still need more theory... that's possible, but we're seeing some pretty incredible developments with what we have.

Can't wait to see what comes next!