AI is not a product
AI is explained as self-evident. It's not; it's not even a product for now.
A perfect summary (and quote) about how financial markets currently push AI to our face as self-evident, without really specifying how the AI-revolution will take place:
Wireless networking is pervasive too. But Apple doesn’t have “a killer wireless networking product”. Wireless networking simply pervades everything Apple makes. I’m hard pressed to think of a single product Apple makes that doesn’t use some combination of Wi-Fi, cellular, Bluetooth, and proprietary wireless protocols. There was a time, not too long ago, when Apple didn’t make a single product with wireless connectivity. Now it’s pervasive in all their devices. That’s more what AI is going to be like. There’s not going to be one “killer AI device”. Everything is going to be an AI device, to some extent, just like how everything today is a wireless connectivity device, to some extent.
I do think of AI as electricity. Just like I did of "digital" two decades ago when it was broadcast by everyone as self-evident that digital would change the world. No one was specifying how, though, as the future of this technology was invented in real-time, and quite often by the markets themselves. Not self-proclaimed experts. And even less, groups of interests assembling and marketing this technology.
Late 90s, we had emails way before they were massively useful to get messages from our online shopping platforms, banks, or MDs' assistants. Digital wasn't a product but a technology starting to spread out in building products at the nodes of connectivity that were burgeoning.
This is AI now.
A technology starting to spread around and empowering old products – not so many new ones, yet.
