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I won the Pulitzer Prize for History for Lords of Finance, my account of how four central bankers’ decisions triggered the Great Depression. I have just completed 1873, a book on America’s railroad boom of the 1870s — the last time private capital flooded into a transformative new infrastructure technology at a scale comparable to 2%–3% of GDP. That research is why, when I look at the AI buildout today, I am genuinely frightened.
Apple has spent 5 years selling products with neural cores in them, they are well placed to add functionality that runs on device
They were also smart enough to realise a few years back that the tech was half baked and held of until now