The real ROI of AI for knowledge work: the task-level gains (Noy-Zhang, Brynjolfsson), the jagged frontier (BCG-Harvard), the 2.8% real-world time saving and no earnings effect (Humlum), 95% of enterprise pilots with no P&L return (MIT), and how to capture what is real.
Do not expect it to raise your pay or your margin for you. The research is blunt: the gain goes to whoever deliberately banks it, and mostly no one does yet.
I guess they’re talking to CEOs and the like, because for many of us efficiency gains have not borne any relation to pay for 15 years or more. It’s Hacker News after all, where the existence of people who work for pay tends to be forgotten.
I guess they’re talking to CEOs and the like, because for many of us efficiency gains have not borne any relation to pay for 15 years or more. It’s Hacker News after all, where the existence of people who work for pay tends to be forgotten.