The Economic Singularity: Artificial intelligence and the death of capitalism .. This new book from best-selling AI writer Calum Chace argues that within a few decades, most humans will not be able to work for money. This book mentions me by name 15 times, especially on my review of Martin Ford's Rise of the Robots, wherein I complain that Ford's main evidence for saying "this time is different" is all the impressive demos he's seen lately. This seems to be Chace's main evidence as well: Faster computers, the availability of large data sets, and the persistence of pioneering researchers have finally rendered [deep learning] effective this decade, leading to "all the impressive computing demos" referred to by Robin Hanson in chapter 3.3, along with some early applications. But the major applications are still waiting in the wings, poised to take the stage. It's time to answer the question: is it really different this time?