The ads are coming. Google is also beginning to push the idea of agentic shopping, so the AI will probably get a kick back if it pushes you to buy certain products.

Of course, all of this undermines the value of the AI, because it will no longer be giving the best information, as it knows it, it will be pushing high margin items for its owners, much like a pushy salesman. Not that current AI product recommendations are any good, as I’ve run into several situations where the source on its data is a low-effort SEO page loaded with affiliate links.

The strategic value for the government guarantees they will keep them afloat. Arguably more important than banks these days.

For a number of players, big ones too, all the money that's going to change hands has already done so.

Plus even if AI were to work absolutely perfect at this point, it's still not worth money to consumers.

This is not something that was consumer-driven, and there has been no pent-up demand among consumers that is available to be unleashed.

With the money that's been spent so far, it's only worth that much if it can economically replace a fair number of employees almost completely, and the figures are so high already that small-business employers will not likely add up to enough.

People are expensive, even at the lowest of training, so the incentive has always been huge to lower the cost of people, since way before plantation times or Roman legions.

Naturally this really adds up mainly for those who are paying the cost of people, and have power and resources to do something about it.

Other than very large employers, including governments, who else is in position to get their money's worth?

What's supposed to be in it for consumers?

How are they supposed to be motivated to spend any more than they already are when the truly intelligent thing to do is actually cut back and it's so obvious it doesn't take a computer brain to figure it out.