The Coming AI Economic Revolution

And when the job involves one of the more fundamental capabilities of carbon life, such as perception, humans are often cheaper. Or, at least, it’s far cheaper to get reasonable accuracy with a relatively small investment by using people. This is particularly true for startups, which typically don’t have a large, sophisticated AI infrastructure to build from. The issue with AI historically is not that it doesn’t work—it has long produced mind-bending results—but rather that it’s to building attractive pure-play business models in private markets. Looking at the fundamentals, it’s not hard to see why getting great economics from AI has been tough for startups. This post explores the economics of traditional AI and why it’s typically been difficult to reach escape velocity for startups using AI as a core differentiator (something we’ve written about in the past).

It will take sustained economic growth for the country to reach middle or high-middle income status. AI can lead to rapid productivity and economic growth, but AI adoption requires the proper institutions and technological infrastructure, and a significant portion of India’s population is not yet connected to the internet. The UAE’s most geopolitically significant AI strategy may be that it is reportedly positioning itself as both a complement and in some ways a competitor to both the US and China. At the same time, Beijing and Washington are competing with one another within the UAE, working to build closer technological ties with UAE-based enterprises and to persuade them to cut ties with opposing poles in today’s great-power competition. The UAE’s direction of travel will be especially important for the world’s 400 million Arabic speakers, many of whom will use its LLMs, and for much of the Global South, giving the country of 10 million people the ability to affect billions of consumers globally.

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With their immense contextual awareness, GenAI assistants can serve as specialized copilots and thereby elevate the role of humans to perform at higher, more strategic levels. Looking across the value chain, the opportunities best suited for using GenAI are where there are either repetitive knowledge-intensive tasks being performed by a lot of people with variability or a few key experts with discretionary thinking. The spectrum of opportunities is wide-ranging—with the potential for value realization increasing from knowledge discovery through business function optimization and personalized augmentation.

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Therefore as we discussed above, getting the economics to work relative to a human is hard. Likely as a result of AI largely being a complement to existing products from incumbents, it has not introduced many new use cases that have translated into new user behaviors across the broader consumer population. New user behaviors tend to underlie massive market shifts because they often start as fringe secular movements the incumbents don’t understand, or don’t care about. (Think about the personal microcomputer, the Internet, personal smartphones, or the cloud.) This is fertile ground for startups to cater to emergent consumer needs without having to compete against entrenched incumbents in their core areas of focus.

Early adopters of generative AI will have the advantage of better data management and building the skills necessary for successful use of the technology. Understanding your data and AI models takes time, and this time lost by late adopters can’t be bought back, meaning there’s a clear early mover advantage. Further, as gen AI becomes increasingly adept at problem solving, it will be up to human workers to get better at problem finding, as they will be the ones to prompt gen AI to find innovative issue resolutions and opportunities. Before generative AI captured the popular imagination in late 2022, the ability to create new things—a competitive analysis, business presentation or piece of software code—was seen as an exclusively human trait.

This burgeoning virtual world, where the lines between digital and physical realities blur, is witnessing unprecedented engagement and investment. As of November 2021, users have poured approximately $106 million into acquiring virtual properties within the Metaverse, ranging from digital land to luxury yachts, highlighting the growing fascination and value attributed to these immersive environments. This article delves deep into the world of AGI, exploring its possibilities, the challenges it faces, and the profound impact it could have on our society and future.

And they will need to build an economy in which the use of AI systems is sensitive to the needs of workers themselves and in which shocks are minimized and the widespread fears of excessive automation are addressed—or they will likely encounter unnecessary resistance. AI, including its most recent addition, generative AI, has the potential to produce a large and decisive upswing in productivity and growth at a moment when the global economy desperately needs it. Among many current economic challenges are supply constraints, growing pressure on overindebted countries, demographic changes, and persistent inflation, all of which threaten to limit countries’ ability to sustain prosperity. But despite fears to the contrary, the prospect of large-scale AI-induced unemployment does not seem likely, especially given current labor shortages in a number of sectors. Those anxieties are based on the incorrect assumption that demand is fixed, or inelastic, and hence insensitive to price and cost changes. In fact, although there are likely to be lots of changes in the characteristics of many jobs, as well as some job displacement, overall employment levels in the economy are unlikely to change much, assuming the economy continues to grow.

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This can erode trust in information sources and contribute to the spread of misinformation, impacting societal perceptions and decision-making. Also, tools like ChatGPT help brainstorm content ideas based on user prompts about the target audience. This enhances user experience and broadens the reach of creative content, connecting artists and entrepreneurs directly with a global audience. In addition, Generative AI tools have automated content creation, making elements like images, audio, video, etc., just a simple click away.

• Similarly, Congress should fully fund other shortchanged features of the CHIPS and Science Act, such as ones to build the STEM workforce through scholarships, fellowships, and traineeships.
• Generative AI could have a significant impact on the banking industry, generating value from increased productivity of 2.8 to 4.7 percent of the industry’s annual revenues, or an additional $200 billion to $340 billion.
• Foundation models and generative AI can enable organizations to complete this step in a matter of weeks.
• While IDC pegged the share of 5G smartphones in the September quarter’s shipments to India to be at 58%, by next year, the proliferation of 5G in the budget segment will significantly increase this—thus making 2024 the year when 5G smartphones go potentially mainstream.

This technology offers radical potential for exponential growth, and Google is working to help Canada fully realize AI’s economic potential. We’ve seen the rise of smartphones, the takeoff of video streaming, growth of electric vehicles, Cloud technologies, and more. Although there’s been an incredible amount of innovation over the years, there’s never been such a systemic and seismic shift globally in the industry than the one we’re seeing right now with artificial intelligence. Technology impacts every facet of our lives, and, if approached responsibly, it has the opportunity to continue to better people’s lives with its advances. Based on these assessments of the technical automation potential of each detailed work activity at each point in time, we modeled potential scenarios for the adoption of work automation around the world. First, we estimated a range of time to implement a solution that could automate each specific detailed work activity, once all the capability requirements were met by the state of technology development.

Compared to previous manifestations of artificial intelligence and analytics, such as machine learning and deep learning, this would represent an additional increase of 10 to 40 percent. The actual impact could be even higher if GenAI were integrated into software such as word processors or chatbots, allowing freed-up work time to be used for other tasks. Internationally, the recent breakthroughs and innovations in AI have clearly been led by the United States, with China in second place. These two countries are also home to the AI platform companies with enough computing power to train advanced LLMs. By contrast, the European Union has fallen behind the United States and China in AI, cloud computing, and other related areas.

To achieve these goals, the federal government is likely to be the best-placed actor for mobilizing the resources necessary to promote widespread AI growth, but states and cities have a key role to play too. Such initiatives should focus on improving the distribution of AI-related R&D, widening access to computing power and data, supporting the emergence of an AI workforce, and promoting the emergence of AI clusters in new places. Through intentional engagements along these lines, the U.S. may well be able to align an AI revolution with benefits that are socially and geographically distributed across the nation.

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• By enhancing human skills and transforming work processes, AI augmentation is a pivotal element in fostering the growth and development of AGI.
• Two emerging trajectories in AI compute infrastructure are likely to drive significant commercial impact, including today’s GPU shortages and resulting market asymmetries, as well as and shifts in AI workloads from training to inference.
• As a result, 2024 could be the year when the first generation of truly immersive metaverse experiences are built and experimented with in terms of what value additions could do.
• For example, natural-language capabilities would be the key driver of value in a customer service use case but not in a use case optimizing a logistics network, where value primarily arises from quantitative analysis.
• Overall, AI should advance the adoption of cloud computing and allow cloud infrastructure a wider total addressable market.