What people expect from AI is not just a conversational back and forth like we do with the models of ChatGPT and Grok.
The larger society still doesn’t do that, and even if they start doing it, they won’t pay for it.
People will eventually want AI to perform tasks that are either very time consuming, repetitive, mundane, or those that are very difficult for a single person to do efficiently.
And when we look at this scenario from First Principles, we ask ourselves – can we unbundle everything businesses or individuals do into different verticals?
My mother is a professor – she teaches theory in a classroom, she takes attendance, she checks papers, she helps students with practicals in labs, and so on.
Now, I think all professors will agree that checking papers is a very boring thing to do, but a very important one.
So can we inject AI into the veins of this vertical? Can we build something that takes the handwritten answer sheets as input, corrects them, and gives an output of score based on the parameters that the prof had preset?
There you go, you have an AI startup. I think this decade – 2020s – is all about that. You’ll see people unbundling tasks into different verticals, and then injecting their AI into each one of those.
The startups that will eventually emerge as leaders in those respective verticals will become high value companies.