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Which past technology boom offers the most interesting parallel to AI designing its own next generation of hardware?
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Steam engines improving machine tools
59 votes (28.4%)
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Cars creating the oil industry
34 votes (16.3%)
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Smartphones creating app stores
54 votes (26.0%)
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Railways creating suburbs
61 votes (29.3%)
Total votes: 208
Answer: A – Steam engines improving machine tools
Explanation: During the Industrial Revolution, better steam engines helped power the machine tools and factories that could then manufacture increasingly sophisticated machinery – a reinforcing cycle between the technology and the means of producing it.