The Singularity Is Boring

More like SaaS integrations than Skynet.

I was on a Zoom call with founders of an AI unicorn company — which means a company worth over a billion dollars that is not yet listed in the stock market. You haven’t heard about them because they are in “stealth mode.” I can’t tell you more because I’m in “NDA mode.”

But, despite all this big money flying around, AI has failed to make a dent in the stock market. What’s up with that? Are these guys just dumping their money down the toilet?

As far as I can tell from these calls, they are building trojan horses with AI tools, waiting for the right moment to pop out and ransack. In the next five years, we might see one of the largest shifts of corporate power in history. You don’t know their names yet, but you will.

To see how AI is actually going to change the world, look where the money is going. Executives who built Google and Facebook left their high-paying jobs to build AI powered vertical SaaS products.

I envisioned terrifying egregors with superhuman intelligence. Instead, I got SaaS products.

I should’ve guessed it. In the 30s, everyone thought robotic arms would make music, burb babies, and do dishes. Instead, we got automotive assembly lines. It was a massive transformation of human productivity…