One of the ideas I like going back to is the idea of AI learning to make money for itself.
Sounds far fetched, but if there should be a test of artificial general intelligence, this is it.
Forget the Turing test.
Forget intelligence.
Make money.
Women care about it.
Compare two men.
Other factors remaining constant, one is broke but smart as a Greek philosopher, the other dumb but well armed with the kitty, dough, mula, dimez, green, means.
We all know who they'll give it too.

Right now, AI cannot even make money for itself as a disembodied agent like ChatGPT, so as an embodied agent like Sonny from IRobot is a long shot.
I prefer the former, though, be it a hero or a villain. An embodied AI just hits different.
There's something real about AI robots that digital AIs just cannot match.
They mean business.
Boys love bumblebee and optimus prime, love C-3PO. Nearly none of them love Jarvis, or, uh, ...
AI Cars > AI Computers.
It must be because we must be physically fit as men so we put our hats off to a superhuman strength robot that can throw cars with a single movement of its steel arm, bend cages open, crush a fool's head without "emotional" output.
For some reason, though, humans have refused to deploy these machines into the world and they've instead deployed ChatGPT and other disembodied, albeit feminized AI systems.
Are men hypocrites?
It's strange.
Or perhaps, we fear they will actually harm us. So we simply fantasize about being their buddies in movies.
Being a buddy to Optimus Prime.
But even when the technology likely exists, we cower.
All it takes is a nuclear reactor the size of a doughnut. Can't we make that?

However, there will be no Optimus Prime without a Megatron first.
No AI super money maker for ya'll (who will then get you women, fitness and smarts, in that order) without an AI robber baron.
(Your grandkids will be so rugged).
The hero never appears until everybody has been beaten, bruised, humiliated many times over to no avail.
The futuristic good times never come, before a true shitstorm has passed through.
War or No war.
I see a lot of countries around the world buying a lot of gold, but I dont remember a news article saying how cool gold just got.
Any new superior microprocessors that suddenly need 10x more gold than before?
Nope.
Be sure: a massive bank run is gearing up. This is a financial tsunami, gearing up and up. Not a ride to the proverbial moon.

So it will happen.
Like before.
But Bigger.
They'll take all the gold, pack it up in a single vault.
As a way of keeping the peace.
Perhaps this time it will be China's. Last time it was America's and before that, Britain's Bank.
But here's the end game after all the shenanigans: If we design robots to defend our gold in our personal vaults at home. Then nobody gon fk wit us.
You touch the gold, you'll be a fool and you'll get crushed.
An AI robot doesn't have emotions.
Only the cold hard logic needed to keep evil, intentional or not, away from serious business. No more "just one more time then I'll be a good boy and I won't destroy the economy".
But actual lives are destroyed you fool.
People actually die.
Don't you see, you deserve to face off against a cold hard logician. Not a warm face.
You spat in the warm face.
High and mighty, you wasted a chance to actually be a hero against nature. Instead succumbing to your base instincts.
Now you're at the wrong door, trying to steal my gold.
Not knowing that the robot is waiting to beat the foolishness out of you. Crush you.
Think Optimus Prime is some nice guy like Santa?
No. Guy is a god of War.
For you are become destructive nature.
So my robot will tame you.
If your head is not crushed, that is.

P.S.>> Goes without saying that if gold can be protected, so will that USB stick containing a more precious form of gold.