When Will The Trillions Invested In AI Pay Off? Sooner Than You Think.

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Sooner Than You Think.</h1> <p class="post-byline"> by <span class="vcard author"> <span class="fn"><a href="https://joshbersin.com/author/joshbersin/" title="Posts by joshbersin" rel="author">joshbersin</a></span> </span> · Published <time class="published" datetime="2024-08-08T13:25:40+00:00">August 8, 2024</time> · Updated <time class="updated" datetime="2024-08-09T05:23:29+00:00">August 9, 2024</time> </p> <div class="clear"></div> <div class="entry themeform share"> <div class="entry-inner"> <p>In the last few weeks there has been a lot of concern that Gen AI is a “bubble” and companies may never see the return on the $Trillion being spent on infrastructure. Let me cite four analyst’s opinions.</p> <p><strong>Will Today’s Massive AI Investments Pay Off?</strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ai-productivity-boom-forecasts-countered-by-theory-and-data-by-daron-acemoglu-2024-05">MIT professor Daron Acemoglu</a> estimates that over the next ten years AI will impact less than 5% of all tasks, concluding that AI will only increase US productivity by .5% and GDP growth by .9% over the next decade. As he puts it, the impact of AI is not “a law of nature.”</p> <p>On a similar vein, Gary Marcus, professor emeritus of psychology and neural science at New York University, believes <a href="https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/why-the-collapse-of-the-generative">Gen AI is soon to collapse</a>, and the trillions spent will largely result in a loss of privacy, increase in cyber terror, and a lack of differentiation between providers. The result: a market with low profits and big losses.</p> <p><a href="https://joshbersin.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Goldman-AI-2024.pdf">Goldman Sachs Head of Equity Research Jim Covello is similarly pessimistic</a>, arguing simply that the $1 Trillion spent on AI is focused on tech that cannot truly automate complex tasks, and that vendors’ over-focus on “human-like features” will miss the boat in delivering business productivity. (He studies stocks, not the economy.)</p> <p>And Goldman Sachs Global Economist, who is a fan, <a href="https://joshbersin.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Goldman-AI-2024.pdf">estimates that AI could automate 25% of work tasks</a> and raise US productivity by 9T and GDP by 6.1% over the next decade. He follows the traditional business meme that “AI changes everything” for the better.</p> <p>What’s going on? Quite simply this new technology is very expensive to build, so we’re all unsure where the payoffs will be.</p> <p><strong>Buyers Are Looking For A Return Soon</strong></p> <p>If we discount the work going on at Google, Meta, Perplexity, and Microsoft to build AI-based search businesses, which make money on advertising (Zuckerberg essentially just said that <a href="https://fortune.com/2024/07/31/mark-zuckerberg-metas-ai-tool-world/">in a few years AI will guarantee your ad spend pays off</a>), corporate IT managers are asking questions.</p> <p>An article in Business Insider pointed to a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pharma-cio-cancelled-microsoft-copilot-ai-tool-2024-7">large Pharma company that cancelled their Microsoft Copilot</a> licenses because the tool was not adding any significant value (Chevron’s CIO <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/a-reality-check-on-ai-with-chevrons-cio?rc=8crcld">was quoted similarly in The Information</a>).</p> <p>Another quoted a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pharma-cio-cancelled-microsoft-copilot-ai-tool-2024-7">Chief Marketing Officer who stated</a> Google Gemini’s email marketing tool and the new AI-powered ad-buying tool performed worse than the human workers it was intended to replace (or support).</p> <p>Given that these tools almost double the “price per user” for the productivity suites, I think it’s fair that CIOs, CMOs, to expect them to pay for themselves fairly quickly.</p> <p><strong>What’s Going On? The Big Wins Will Be Domain Specific</strong></p> <p>As with all new technologies that enter the market quickly, “the blush on the rose” is over. We’ve been dazzled by the power of ChatGPT and now we’re searching for real solutions to problems. And unlike the internet, where research was funded by the government, there’s going to be a lag (and some risk) between the trillions we spend and the trillions we save.</p> <p>Given that ChatGPT is less than two years old and OpenAI has morphed from a research company into a product company, it’s easy to see what’s happening. Every vendor and tool provider is narrowing its AI “strategy” and not just pasting little AI “stars” on their websites, looking for useful things to do. And this process may take a few years.</p> <p>In the world of HR, I think we can all agree that a “push the button job description generator” is a bit of a commodity. However if the AI analyzes the job title, identifies the skills needed through a large skills engine, and tunes the job description by company size, industry, and role, then it’s a fantastic solution. (Galileo does this, as does SeekOut, SAP, and some other vendors.)</p> <p>The more “specific” and “narrow” the AI is, the more useful it becomes. Generic LLMs that aren’t highly trained, optimized, and tuned to your company, business, and job are simply not going to command high prices. So while we all thought ChatGPT was Nirvana, we’re now figuring out that highly specialized solutions are the answer.</p> <p>Let me give you some examples.</p> <p>The first is the platform built by <a href="https://www.paradox.ai/">Paradox</a>, a pioneering company that started work on AI-based recruiting agents in 2016. Paradox, now valued at around $2 Billion, delivers an end-to-end recruitment platform that automates the entire process of candidate marketing, candidate experience, assessment, selection, interview scheduling, hiring, and onboarding. Most people believe its a “Chatbot” but in reality it’s an AI-powered end-to-end system that radically simplifies and speeds the recruitment process in a groundbreaking way. Companies like 7-11, FedEx, GM, and others see massive improvements in operational efficiency and both candidates, managers, and recruiter adore it. It took Paradox eight years to build this level of integrated solution.</p> <p>The second is our platform <a href="https://joshbersin.com/galileo">Galileo</a>. Galileo, which is now licensed by more than 10,000 HR professionals, is a highly tuned AI agent specifically designed to help HR professionals (leaders, business partners, consultants, recruiters, and other roles) do the “complex work” HR professionals do. It’s not a generic LLM: it’s a highly specialized solution designed specifically for HR professionals, and we’ve added <a href="https://joshbersin.com/2024/05/galileo-goes-live-expands-its-power-with-new-trusted-content/">specialized content partners</a> and are building special integrations with other HR platforms. Our clients tell us it’s saving them 1-2 hours a day.</p> <p>The third is the platform <a href="https://www.hiredscore.com/">HiredScore</a>, that was recently acquired by Workday. Founded in 2012, the HiredScore team built tools to help identify “fit” between individuals and jobs, and tuned its AI to be highly explainable, unbiased, and very easy to use. It took Athena Karp and the team a few years to nail down the use-cases and user interface but now HiredScore is considered one of the most powerful recruitment “orchestration” tools in the market, and is also used for internal hiring and many other applications. Every customer I talk with tells me it’s essential and saves them months of manual, error-prone effort.</p> <p>The fourth is the platform <a href="https://eightfold.ai">Eightfold</a>, which was invented in 2016 as a way to build “Google-scale” matching between job seekers and jobs. Through many years of engineering, product management, and ongoing sales process the company has become the leader in a new space called “Talent Intelligence,” now a billion dollar rapid-growing category. The company is about ten years old and now has some of the world’s largest companies building their hiring, career management, and talent management processes using AI. Companies like EY, Bayer, and Chevron now use it for all their strategic talent programs.</p> <p>Each of these vendors, including others like <a href="https://gloat.com">Gloat</a>, <a href="https://sanalabs.com">Sana</a>, <a href="https://www.arist.co/">Arist</a>, <a href="https://lightcast.io/">Lightcast</a>, <a href="https://draup.com/">Draup</a>, <a href="https://uplimit.com/">Uplimit</a>, <a href="https://firstup.io/">Firstup</a>, and hundreds of others have patiently taken the power of Generative AI and applied it with laser precision to their solutions. Each of these companies is different, and as we work with them we see lightning bolts of innovation: not in AI itself, but in finding new ways to solve problems and do what I call “crawling up the value curve.”</p> <p>This is the path for AI in the coming years. As with all new technologies, the “trough of disappointment” is always followed by the “bowling pin” of hitting the nail on the head. Innovators, entrepreneurs, and startup founders are the ones who will take GenAI and apply it in unique ways to solve problems. And soon enough, “AI-powered” will be a phrase we barely even need to say.</p> <p><strong>The Best Solutions Will Be Narrow Not Wide</strong></p> <p>GenAI solutions require a large “platform” of data, infrastructure, and software. That alone is not where the value resides. Rather, the big productivity advantages come after years of effort, focusing the data sets and working with customers to find the features, UI designs, and data sets that add enormous value. And we are still in the early stages.</p> <p>If you want to learn more about HR Technology and AI, join me at the <a href="https://www.hrtechnologyconference.com/program">HR Technology Conference on September 24-25 in Vegas</a>, or at <a href="https://www.unleash.ai/unleashworld/">Unleash in Paris in October 16-17</a>. While I can’t predict who will win the core AI platform game (Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon will fight it out), I can predicts this: Generative AI will deliver massive improvements in business productivity. You just have to shop around a bit and wait for just the right solutions to arrive.</p> <p><strong>Additional Information</strong></p> <p><a href="https://joshbersin.com/understanding-ai-in-hr/">Understanding AI in HR: A Deep Dive</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/generative-ai-will-power-a-new-hr-talent-intelligence-paradigm-the-josh-bersin-company-predicts-301876703.html">The New Generative AI Paradigm: Talent Intelligence Comes of Age</a></p> <p><a href="https://bersinacademy.com/courses/ai-in-hr">AI in HR Certificate Program in The Josh Bersin Academy</a></p> <nav class="pagination group"> </nav> </div> <div class="sharrre-container no-counter"> <span>Share</span> <div id="twitter" data-url="https://joshbersin.com/2024/08/when-will-the-trillions-invested-in-ai-pay-off-sooner-than-you-think/" data-text="When Will The Trillions Invested In AI Pay Off? 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