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Azeem Azhar

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6819 total appearances

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Plain English with Derek Thompson
Everybody Thinks AI Is a Bubble. What If They’re Wrong?

And that works in two ways.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Everybody Thinks AI Is a Bubble. What If They’re Wrong?

So in one way, it might be that you save money because you can ship a better product with the same number of developers.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Everybody Thinks AI Is a Bubble. What If They’re Wrong?

It might work another way, which is that in order to keep your product relevant in the market, you've now got to pay someone

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Everybody Thinks AI Is a Bubble. What If They’re Wrong?

to provide AI services for it.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Everybody Thinks AI Is a Bubble. What If They’re Wrong?

And I think a lot of business services companies with software on the web are finding this at the moment.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Everybody Thinks AI Is a Bubble. What If They’re Wrong?

In order to stay relevant, they have to provide an AI add-on.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Everybody Thinks AI Is a Bubble. What If They’re Wrong?

They're maybe charging $20 a month for it, but it's costing them $25 a month.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Everybody Thinks AI Is a Bubble. What If They’re Wrong?

But if they don't do it,

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Everybody Thinks AI Is a Bubble. What If They’re Wrong?

they will lose customers.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Everybody Thinks AI Is a Bubble. What If They’re Wrong?

So that's the threefold way in which we get to this number.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Everybody Thinks AI Is a Bubble. What If They’re Wrong?

And I think it's also worth knowing that these are big numbers today already.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Everybody Thinks AI Is a Bubble. What If They’re Wrong?

The amount that goes in online advertising and buying software is well over a trillion dollars a year, and it's already growing at 14% a year.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Everybody Thinks AI Is a Bubble. What If They’re Wrong?

So I think part of the question is, how much could AI increase that growth rate?

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Everybody Thinks AI Is a Bubble. What If They’re Wrong?

And how much would it displace

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Everybody Thinks AI Is a Bubble. What If They’re Wrong?

existing companies who are not using AI.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Everybody Thinks AI Is a Bubble. What If They’re Wrong?

And so there is a journey.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Everybody Thinks AI Is a Bubble. What If They’re Wrong?

I think one of the big investment banks talks about a trillion dollars of revenue a year in 2030, which, you know, it's not a shoo-in, but it's not completely pie in the sky.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Everybody Thinks AI Is a Bubble. What If They’re Wrong?

You know, it's somewhere in between.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Everybody Thinks AI Is a Bubble. What If They’re Wrong?

Wow.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Everybody Thinks AI Is a Bubble. What If They’re Wrong?

Well, I mean, that would be really grim.