Comment by rkagerer

It's also possible people finally become SICK of seeing ads and there's a cultural shift boycotting products incorporating them. I would love to see this.

There's a difference between advertising - which tends to be offensive, stealing your attention from the task you're trying to accomplish - and an agent that actually helps you with the intended task (as in travel agent, real estate agent, etc). In my opinion the future of revenue for the richest companies is the latter, we just have yet to see anyone unlock it at true scale.

My non-tech spouse is excited about AI because she wants what amounts to a personal, universal EA that can help her with anything. If your executive assistant just kept squawking ads at you all day long you'd fire them.