Today we have the most advanced AI the world has ever known. Yet, today’s version of AI will be outpaced by future technology in just a few months to years.
AI has a potential to change the way we live at a scale bigger than most can imagine.
AI is being adopted at unprecedented speed
It took ChatGPT just 5 days to reach 1 million users. The next fastest platform in history (Instagram) took 15 times longer.
Potentially more impressive, ChatGPT achieved over 200 million users in the first 6 months. Meaning they reached 200 million users in less time than it took Facebook to hit their first million.
It is not just ChatGPT but many other AI platforms, like Midjourney, are seeing a large rise in users. Currently Midjourney is the largest discord server with 14 million users in less than 1 year.
Industries most likely to be disrupted
Accounting
Call centers
Legal
Healthcare (especially administration)
Marketing
Education
Architecture & Design
Video games
Self-driving (although slow may take over 2 years)
AI will disrupt a broad range of fields in a short amount of time. From graphic design, to law to healthcare to driving.
AI video games
Current video games have a storyline, if you speak to the NPCs within the game you usually have a brief dialogue with a few choices.
The future of AI will dramatically change this. You will be able to have what feels like real relationships in video games. Meaning that your conversations can be fluid, dynamic and feel like a real friend, lover or acquaintance.
This will lead to a rise in AI companions. Friends, lovers, relationships with AI. Like a real friendship it will be dynamic and the AI will remember how you treated it in the past to form a dynamic relationship that is both challenging and feels “real.”
The rise of profitability
The next wave of AI companies will be focused on high profit. This can be accomplished by a small team plus AI doing the work of a team that would require 5-10x the people without AI.
What this means is companies will have more output with fewer salaries. This will lead to a higher profitability per person. As interest rates rise access to outside capital will continue to become more challenging.
I also believe we will see a shrinking of staff at large publicly traded companies as well, especially in the tech sectors.
Being on the right side of change
You should spend at least a few hours a week playing with and learning how to use different AI platforms. This will help give you an idea of the powers and limitations of current AI.
Think about how you can become more efficient using AI. This might mean that you can do 5x more work per person, or disrupt an industry.
How to keep up with the latest AI companies
Start with ChatGPT. Follow new companies in the space being established on Product Hunt and Y Combinator.
Look for recent large funding rounds and look for industry leaders who begin popping up in your fields of interest.
Also, X/Twitter can be a valuable tool to connect directly with top minds in the AI space.
Conclusion
The disruption possible by AI will be at a speed and scale that we simply have not seen before. Today we are so early that it may be hard to imagine how big the changes will be. That said, I believe the next 24 months will show massive changes and this is one of the most significant technological changes we will see.
Cheers
Josh Bobrowsky