I don't think the conclusion of this article is controversial if you accept the premise: If a horizontal AI model is able to serve as a "drop-in remote worker" and all you need to do to get it going is give it access to a computer and some software, then of course vertical AI applications are going to have a hard time. I read "drop-in remote worker" as AGI. You can give it any task and it performs at-or-exceeding hum…
> I read "drop-in remote worker" as AGI. You can give it any task and it performs at-or-exceeding human level. The real question to me then becomes the implications for the rest of the economy, not simply a question of what happens to vertical AI companies. > ... > If there are relatively few humans in the white-collar workforce, then we are talking about nothing short of a complete remake of the economy. Which is wh…
And I have not seen anybody talk about this at all.