Impact of AI towards society

 Instead of predicting future development, the following essay describes only the past which is well documented. Most attempts in the past to build robots and develop artificial Intelligence has failed. A famous large scale project was realized by Cycorp in the mid 1980s [1]. The impact for the society was nearly zero. No valuable product was generated by Cyc. Another larger project was company "Helpmate robotics" from the mid 1990s. The goal was to build hospital robots which deliver food. Even some of these robots were used in reality, the company went bankrupt and the customers were not satisfied.

Last but not least, the "Rethink Robotics" company should be mentioned which was founded in 2008. The most famous product of the company was Baxter which was an industrial robot with a smiling face. The amount of sold units were low and the company went bankrupt after a while.

So we can say, that the attempts to build robots in the mid 1980s until 2010s were not very successful. Not a single human workers were replaced by these AI systems and the amount of sales was very low. There are many reasons available for this failure, for example the immature technology, a public how doesn't understand robotics, and management failures by the founders of the AI companies. 

[1] Cycorp https://yuxi.ml/cyc/