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Is AI Actually Making Us More Productive?
We've been told AI changes everything. But when you look for the actual return, it gets a lot harder to find. In this clip we ask the question out loud.
Malcolm and Thomas get into whether all this AI spending is really translating into productivity and return on investment — or whether the hype is running ahead of the results. They talk through why the payoff is so hard to measure, how tiered pricing could actually make AI worth it for the people using it, and the real drawbacks of the technology that don't make the marketing.
⏱️ Timestamps:
00:00 — The Impact of AI on Productivity and…
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