Is AI the "automobile" of this generation?

[Barnsley]

Some fella on Linkedin in said AI is the automobile of this generation in that the automobile replaced the horse in the economy.

He say AI gonne replace human as an analogy.

However I ask at what stage does the cost of AI come down?

Who is going to be the Japanese car industry of AI?

Where can the disruption come from?

 

[Daniel Nenni]

Some fella on Linkedin in said AI is the automobile of this generation in that the automobile replaced the horse in the economy.

He say AI gonne replace human as an analogy.

However I ask at what stage does the cost of AI come down?

Who is going to be the Japanese car industry of AI?

Where can the disruption come from?

I have heard AI called the next industrial revolution and I have to agree with that.

The United States is commonly described as having gone through several major industrial/technological revolutions. Historians divide them slightly differently, but this is the standard framework:

1. First Industrial Revolution (late 1700s–mid-1800s)
   
   • Water power and steam power
   • Textile mills, mechanized manufacturing, canals, railroads
   • Key figures: Eli Whitney, Samuel Slater
2. Second Industrial Revolution (late 1800s–early 1900s)
   
   • Electricity, steel, oil, mass production
   • Telegraph, telephone, automobiles
   • Rise of large corporations and assembly lines
   • Key figures: Thomas Edison, Henry Ford
3. Third Industrial Revolution / Digital Revolution (mid-1900s–early 2000s)
   
   • Electronics, computers, semiconductors, automation
   • Internet and telecommunications
   • Key companies: Intel, IBM
4. Fourth Industrial Revolution (2000s–present)
   
   • Artificial intelligence, robotics, cloud computing, biotech, IoT
   • Fusion of physical and digital systems
   • Technologies include autonomous vehicles, generative AI, advanced semiconductors
   • Key companies: NVIDIA, OpenAI