Alphabet-owned Waymo plans to test its autonomous taxis in cities including Las Vegas and San Diego this year.

Waymo just flipped the switch from supervised to unsupervised in Atlanta, where it aims to eventually launch a commercial robotaxi service later this year through an exclusive partnership with Uber.

Conventional wisdom suggests that AI will transform the way we do everything while being immensely profitable for a disparate set of companies all along the AI value chain. In a simplistic value chain ...