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It's even funnier when consumers adopt AI agents to get refunds, move money around to high yield accounts, find deals and coupons and companies panic when it works.

It would require further development of AI before it can automate physical factories. There are assorted species of critters that cannot be mass-slaughtered, because they require surgical cuts to remove bones or work around tough parts. An sufficiently advanced AI can X-ray and measure the carcass, then carve up the beast with minimal waste.

Of course, this would be very expensive, requiring entirely new infrastructure and procedures to implement. I suspect that the transition to industrial-application of AI would be slow - then sudden, after testbed factories prove the viability of AI automated workflows.

Why don't we eat alligators?

I don't believe this at all, the way it works is not completely direct, but through productivity gains that are harder to measure.

Productivity isn't where most businesses are going to strike pay dirt. They're going to get their value in processing information and in prototyping ideas/products/solutions before actually physically making them.

So the article may be absolutely true and completely missing the point.