Dare Obasanjo on Nostr: People overestimate what technology can do in a year and underestimate what it can do ...
People overestimate what technology can do in a year and underestimate what it can do in ten.
In 1996, despite AOL’s popularity, you’d struggle to show how the internet boosted profits at Coca-Cola or P&G. Today, neither could function without it.
AI models have only recently become good enough to do real work. It took years for companies to reorganize around the internet. Expecting AI to already show up in Fortune 500 revenue and profits is short-sighted.
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