Oh ok I didn’t follow the attributions. Still, it’s hard to say Lisa Su is wrong, at least from a future perspective. Today, if AI (let’s say post-2023 for the modern sense of AI) disappeared, we’d be rid of some AI slop but not all that much else would change. If we ask the same question in 2060, what answer do we get? IDK. If she said past 20 years instead of past 50, she’d probably be right. Amazon in 2006 was crushing local retail more or less the same way as now.

No I don’t believe that sharing data by internet is a medical technology advance. MRNA vaccines are a real advance, but without them, we’d still have attenuated-virus vaccines like the Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine. MRI was first developed in the 1970s, putting it in the 50 year window but not by much. Gene therapy is new but ultra specialized. There have been huge advances in cancer treatment, probably more important. I would say psychiatry and mental health understanding have gotten a lot better in the past 50 years and that’s important, but it’s hard to call that a technological advance per se.