Comment by ryanrasti

> With the carriage / car situation, individual transportation is their core business, and most companies are not in the field of Artificial Intelligence.

Agreed. The analogy breaks down because the car disrupted a single vertical but AI is a horizontal, general-purpose technology.

I think this also explains why we're seeing "forced" adoption everywhere (e.g., the ubiquitous chatbot) -- as a result of:

1. Massive dose of FOMO from leadership terrified of falling behind

2. A fundamental lack of core competency. Many of these companies companies (I'm talking more than just tech) can't quickly and meaningfully integrate AI, so they just bolt on a product