Welcome to Zero Shot, where Brady, Praveen, and Rohin tackle the big ideas and latest developments in artificial intelligence for The Ken.
This week, Brady conjectures that AI adoption by enterprises hasn’t been a failure, even though many billions of dollars have been spent on generative AI pilot projects with zero return. Instead of thinking of AI as a productivity multiplier or “virtual colleague”, it can also be viewed as a forcing function for company leadership to clear out rot and settle organisational debt.
Next, guess whose salaries are falling because of AI? Praveen contrasts how paycheques are shrinking by as much as 40% in India for engineering and data roles, while their counterparts in the US are getting pay bumps. He makes the point that this remedies one type of distortion, but also that value capture in AI is tough at the application level (for now).
Finally, Rohin expresses his fondness for NotebookLM, which has transformed the way he and some other members of The Ken work.
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What is Zero Shot (Private)?
Join Brady Ng, Praveen Gopal Krishnan, and Rohin Dharmakumar of The Ken as they discuss the big ideas in artificial intelligence. You’ll get the macro view, explore their experiments in practical applications, go deeper than the news coverage you’ve seen, and hear about the implications of the latest developments. Nothing is off the table.