Models Will Get Cheaper, Problems Will Get More Valuable: From Today’s AI Boundaries to the Problem-Solving Industry 20 Years From Now
Models Will Get Cheaper, Problems Will Get More Valuable From Today’s AI Boundaries to the Problem-Solving Industry 20 Years From Now This article starts from a long-term view: as models, compute, and general-purpose AI become infrastructure, models themselves will get cheaper. What becomes scarce will be problems worth solving, unique data and feedback, the ability to define problems, and the ability to turn them into verifiable results. Starting from the technical boundaries already visible today, we ask whether the AI industry may evolve over the next 20 years from selling models to trading problems and outcomes. Xiang Zhang Chief AI Scientist, China Premium Smart Appliances Innovation Center 1 Early Contributor to and Explorer of Foundational AI Technologies His PhD advisor was Yann LeCun, recipient of the 2019 Turing Award. He has long worked on foundational AI research and frontier exploration. 2 Extensive Experience in Industrial AI R&D and Delivery He has end-to...