If an obscure 1980s paradox is any guide, AI may be about to hit a huge tipping point
# AI May Be About to Start Making Real Money Right now, everyone talks about AI as if it's revolutionizing everything, but companies like OpenAI aren't actually earning much money from it yet—a situation that happened with computers in the 1980s before they suddenly became hugely profitable in the mid-1990s. New data suggests AI might be at that same turning point, where all the hype finally translates into real business results and wealth creation. If history repeats itself, the AI companies that survive this transition could become as economically important as Big Tech is today.
There’s an old joke among economists that goes like this: “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” I didn’t say it was a funny joke. But when labor economist Robert Solow originally wrote those words in 1987, they were certainly true. Personal computers, co
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