Bulls push back on Apollo economist's claim that AI has delivered "zero payoff" outside tech
firstadopter · x · 2026-11-02
Apollo Global Management chief economist Torsten Slok claims AI has delivered "zero payoff" to corporate America outside tech. @sudoraohacker counters that massive boosts in software creation and reasoning are elemental and will extend across knowledge work over 5-10 years, then manual labor as robot foundation models (like Astra) mature — software is what's holding robots back. Major tech firms aren't herding; they're simply the first to see the productivity gains.
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