{"id":171235,"date":"2023-09-04T00:23:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T05:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/a-people-first-view-of-the-ai-economy"},"modified":"2023-09-04T00:23:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T05:23:15","slug":"a-people-first-view-of-the-ai-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/a-people-first-view-of-the-ai-economy","title":{"rendered":"A \u2018people-first\u2019 view of the AI economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uYPbbksJxIg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Today marks <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/12\/01\/while-anticipation-builds-for-gpt-4-openai-quietly-releases-gpt-3-5\/\" class=\"\">nine months since ChatGPT was released<\/a>, and six weeks since we announced our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayfield.com\/ai-start\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">AI Start<\/a> seed fund. Based on our conversations with scores of inception and early-stage AI founders, and hundreds of leading CXOs (chief experience officers), I can attest that we are definitely in exuberant times.<\/p>\n<p>In the span of less than a year, AI investments have become de rigueur in any portfolio, new private company unicorns are being created every week, and the idea that AI will drive a stock market rebound is taking root. People outside of tech are becoming familiar with new vocabulary.<\/p>\n<p>Large language models. ChatGPT. Deep-learning algorithms. Neural networks. Reasoning engines. Inference. Prompt engineering. CoPilots. Leading strategists and thinkers are sharing their view on how it will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/capabilities\/mckinsey-digital\/our-insights\/the-economic-potential-of-generative-ai-the-next-productivity-frontier#work-and-productivity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">transform business<\/a>, how it will unlock <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcg.com\/capabilities\/artificial-intelligence\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">potential<\/a>, and how it will contribute to <a href=\"https:\/\/unlocked.microsoft.com\/ai-anthology\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">human flourishing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks nine months since ChatGPT was released, and six weeks since we announced our AI Start seed fund. Based on our conversations with scores of inception and early-stage AI founders, and hundreds of leading CXOs (chief experience officers), I can attest that we are definitely in exuberant times. In the span of less than [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,39,45,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-finance","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}