AI will be 100 times bigger than the internet, becoming the dominant technological and economic trend of the next few decades.
Brett Adcock predicts AI will dwarf the internet in scale and impact, calling it a new type of computer that will transform everything from physical work to digital assistance. ✦ AI generated
Brett Adcock · My First Million · 2026-08-14 · original ↗
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“When where are you going to be in five years? What's your prediction?”
I think at a high level, I think the AI work that we're seeing here now is going to be so much it's going to be like a hundred times bigger than the internet. It's just like everything is just so it's just working so well. like the system is working well like deep learning works and everything's happening faster than I would have think and my like you know having done like 15 years of like software and internet like it was just like nothing was happening faster on a trend line here it's happening like that in AI
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2:56need that to come. When where are you going to be in five years? What's your prediction? >> I think at a high level, I think the AI work that we're seeing here now is going to be so much it's going to be like a hundred times bigger than the internet. It's just like everything is just so it's just working so well. like the system is working well like deep
3:13learning works and everything's happening faster than I would have think and my like you know having done like 15 years of like software and internet like it was just like nothing was happening faster on a trend line here it's happening like that in AI >> can you give an example of something that has happened that's blown you away >> we started at so harkc I have a new AI
3:32lab called hark about a year ago I was like very interested in this idea of like kind of building this AI to human symbiosis digitally it's like Um, figure is going to be like I think figure is going to be like the max ceiling of AGI of like being able to put that out and then there's going to be a version of this in the digital world. It's going to
3:48be like a human is going to have this like AI pairing. It's going to have like ultimately maybe your own AI weights, your own memories, maybe your own hardware. It's going like really close. And fundamental to that thesis was like you got to figure out how to get AI to use computers general purpose. You would never hire an assistant that couldn't use a computer. So you got to be able to
- ·AI scale predicted to be 100x larger than the internet
- ·Deep learning systems are working effectively
- ·Development pace exceeds all previous software/internet trends
- ·Speaker has 15 years software/internet experience
- ·AI represents a new type of computer
- ·Will transform physical work to digital assistance
- ·Progress happening faster than historical expectations
- ·Dominant technological trend for next few decades