What is AI Awakening?
Before diving into the book AI觉醒 . we’ll take a quick glimpse at " AI Awakening " by Erik Brynjolfsson , the Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. What is AI Awakening? 1. Definition / Concept According to Erik Brynjolfsson, Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, frames AI awakening as the point when AI moves from being powerful but underutilized to creating broad, measurable economic productivity gains. Quote: “The technology is real, but the benefits take time to emerge.” 2. Reason for the Delay The lag in seeing AI’s impact on productivity is due to what Brynjolfsson calls a “restructuring lag”: “When you have these powerful technologies, you need to make a lot of complementary innovations to get their full potential. It can take decades.” Analogy: past breakthroughs like the steam engine, electricity, internal combustion engine, and computers also took time before their productivity effects became visible 3. Eco...