AI Capabilities Outpace Real-World Industry Adoption
SergioPaniego · x · 2026-08-25
Despite the rapid speed of AI progress, actual projects are often unglamorous. A read on open model usage highlights a point made by Sam Altman on Senra's podcast: the economy has significant inertia, and it takes a long time for the world to adopt new technologies. AI capabilities are currently far ahead of real-world usage in the industry, similar to the gap seen in autonomous driving.
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