Current AI is the tip of the spear, but the fundamental nature of our economy will blunt that tip, and adoption will be slower than most anticipate. Purchasing cycles. Compliance. Board approvals, budgets, legal sign off, regulation, test phases, etc etc. Were still a long way from Accelerando.
Consider: There are still things that can't be self-serviced on the INTERNET - anything with moderate complexity or risk.
I've been wondering the past couple of weeks about how is India ready for what AI is already doing to jobs, and what is about to happen.
This is taking over faster than I ever expected, with some places already doing the race to the bottom (I recently discovered a portal for small businesses is now offering AI call answering / support / booking all automated addon for $10 / month - and I thought it was a good deal offering similar for $500 / month not long ago), this is going to make millions obsolete within months.
And I only say months because I see it taking that long for places to wind down contracts and switch over to AI call answering and customer support.
The ai systems available for so many of these tasks are more than good enough, and so many people and even tiny businesses are now aware of their existence, I don't see any going back to non English as first language call answering, support or even IT help at this point (for US based businesses, which I assume has been the lions share of income for many of the call centers in many places).