Great article! I don't believe the 18-month prediction either. The choice was never between "AI" versus "human", the choice is between "AI" versus "human+AI". The option "human+AI" working together on a job will always generate a competitive advantage.

The promise of ASI (a superintelligence) or AGI is false one. Rather, most of the AI datacenter capacity being built today will be used for basically entertainment purposes, generating customized facebook AI friends, new funny cat videos, and so on. For most people The Internet is really just the facebook/twitter/youtube. And as you've described in the article, many people are functionally illiterate over longer distances. If ChatGPT could provide facebook-like features combined with google-like question answering in a single interface and in voice (i.e. no reading necessary at all) then 50% of populace would accept it outright, generating enormous income for the tech providers. This is, I believe, true goal of the AI gold rush.