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The AI work happening now is going to be 100 times bigger than the internet.

Brett Adcock predicts that AI will dwarf the internet in scale and impact, citing the speed of progress in deep learning as evidence that this trend is accelerating faster than anything he saw in 15 years of software and internet work. ✦ AI generated

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“Where where are you now? What's the outlook now for the next 5 years then?”

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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2:36just deliver. >> Where where are you now? What's the outlook now for the next 5 years then? I think last time you were on 3 years ago, we said that I think I said it. Uh I was like you'll probably be in the $40 to $50 million valuation range, which I think you are now. But in terms of like you you're still lacking output of robots, like you still need we still

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

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Mechanism · 1

AI's productivity gains will be far bigger than those from the personal computer and the internet, because AI applies to essentially all knowledge work and expands the overall economic pie rather than just cutting costs.Michael Dell · BG2 Pod · conf 85%

Evidence · 2

AI will be a hundred times bigger than the internet, fundamentally transforming every sector of the economy and society.Brett Adcock · My First Million · conf 95%AI will be 100 times bigger than the internet, becoming the dominant technological and economic trend of the next few decades.Brett Adcock · My First Million · conf 95%

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AI will be 100 times bigger than the internet, becoming the dominant technological and economic trend of the next few decades.Brett Adcock · My First Million · conf 90%

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supports → AI will be a hundred times bigger than the internet, fundamentally transforming every sector of the economy and society.Brett Adcock · My First Million provides context → Figure and Hark are at an inflection point where they could be 100x to 1000x bigger in 5 years, with a binary outcome of massive success or failure.Brett Adcock · My First Million provides context → AI will split into two directions: physical humanoid robots and a digital AI-to-human symbiosis, with the digital version acting like a personal Jarvis that uses computers, has memory, and can see and talk.Brett Adcock · My First Million provides context → Figure robots are already performing real work for customers at human speeds with positive ROI, having shipped to three customers and run 200 hours straight at 2.9 seconds per package.Brett Adcock · My First Million