Worrying signs

There are growing, worrying signs that the optimism about AI won’t pan out.

An MIT report found 95% of organizations surveyed are getting no return on their AI product investments. A University of Chicago economics paper found AI chatbots had “no significant impact on workers’ earnings, recorded hours, or wages” at 7,000 Danish... See more

David Cahn, a partner at venture-capital firm Sequoia, estimates that the money invested in AI infrastructure in 2023 and 2024 alone requires consumers and companies to buy roughly $800 billion in AI products over the life of these chips and data centers to produce a good investment return. Analysts believe most AI processors have a useful life of... See more