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Sure. But fancy autocomplete for a very limited industry (IT) plus graphics generation and a few more similar items, are indeed useful. Just like "nanotech" coating of say optics or in the precise machinery or all other fancy nano films in many industries. Modern transistors are close to nano scale now, etc.

The problem is that the distance between a nano thin film or an interesting but ultimately rigid nano scale transistor and a programmable nano level sized robot is enormous, despite similar sizes. Same like the distance between an autocomplete heavily relying on the preexisting external validators (compilers, linters, static code analyzers etc.) and a real AI capable of thinking is equally enormous.






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