The Challenges in Buying AI

The challenge is, really, just that we are very early.

I liken AI to electric motors in terms of their impact.

The change from factories driven by steam engines, one per factory, to factories where each machine has its own electric motor, changed an enormous number of things. But it also took several decades to figure out how to best arrange work.

With AI, we are currently at the stage of "replace messenger boys with telephones".

Besides changing existing industries, electric motors made skyscrapers possible and so changed the size of cities and the nature of life in cities in all sorts of ways.

Humans aren't any smarter now than then, nor is the life of structures any shorter, so it will take take decades this time around, too.