AI has been a smashing success at separating venture capitalists from their money. And just like "blockchain" before it, the hype cycle will fall off eventually and VC money will move on to "the next big thing". And hopefully, we can stop having "AI" jammed into everything. Gods know I'll be happy when I can hear about a security tool and the first thing out of the salesman's mouth isn't some drivel about their product being "AI enabled". Which invariably means "it provides a fuckton of false positives, with zero context, explanation or idea what the fuck the model kicked on".

AI has been so successful that many company have to package it as something that the customers have no choice but to accept it along with the price rise.

But in the books, CEOs get to claim "AI raised the revenue".

Right, the elephant in the room was always that replacing vast human labor was the holy grail that justified the crazy investment.

One little appreciated aspect of the Trump presidency, is that it may include millions of job losses to AI & robotics. I wonder will this be the No 1 issue in the 2028 election ? (if there is one).

They dont need to automate all office jobs to turn a profit. Theres about 18 million office workers in the US and they make an average of around 50k per year. Thats about 900 billion per year, and thats just the US without taxes, office space, utilities and other overhead. If AI could increase average office worker productivity by 50% and OpenAI could capture most of that they could pay back their investment within just a few years and become the most profitable company the world has ever seen. The problem, however, is not just technical, its is going to be capturing that economic windfall, and keeping the savings from being passed on to clients and consumers. Political backing from a reckless and authoritarian autocrat might go a long way towards securing that goal.

Looks like bailouts are back on the menu.