I recently saw an article by Teacher Meng Yan online, which not only enriched and completed some of my views on AI but also well explained why the wealth creation effects generated in the AI field and the cryptocurrency field are so different.
Today, I specifically want to share this article (reference link 1 at the end of the text) and a related insightful comment (reference link 2 at the end of the text) with everyone.
In the article titled "From Field to Table: Will AI Change Your Treatment or Your Status" published on September 16, I mentioned:
In the era of AI, when we learn and master AI tools, we should seriously consider how we should use this tool?
Should we only let it become a tool to enhance our abilities and efficiency?
Or should we find ways to make it a tool to change our status?
After reading Teacher Meng Yan's article, I realized that my thoughts on that question were not deep enough, and I had not grasped the essence of the matter.
Teacher Meng Yan presented the following statement in his article:
"Modern society is a high-density network of collaboration, where each person is only responsible for a small part of the work. Except for a very few individuals, most people actually play the role of simply routing resources within this network. As long as personal productivity meets the standard, further improvement does not provide significant benefits to the overall network system."
"Therefore, as a node in a collaborative network, no matter how high your IQ is or how high your productivity is, the network actually does not need or utilize it. In terms of AI applications, this means that you may double your work efficiency, but the network does not need the additional output you produce; you can only bring yourself some leisure time, and your income will not increase. After many people start using AI, they feel they've become excellent, thinking their productivity has increased by N times, and they should quickly achieve great success. In fact, you overestimate the impact of your IQ and productivity; your little productivity increase does not hold significant value within the entire network and cannot be distributed."
These two paragraphs are worth pondering over repeatedly.
They not only explain the relationship between individual productivity and the entire collaborative network within the social system but also point out the fundamental reason why many personal companies have not emerged quickly as people previously imagined in the AI era.
In an existing, well-constructed production relationship network, individual abilities are not that important; many people's abilities actually far exceed what is needed for their positions.
In such a relationship network, no matter how great an individual's ability is, it cannot create much additional value within the network they occupy, and thus they cannot obtain high additional returns.
The arrival of AI, although it further enhances individual abilities and can make people perform exceptionally well, what use does it hold for those who are still within the original production relationship network?
Their abilities remain superfluous, a type of "good to look at but not useful" skill.
I think about our employees in the company now.
They have all started using various AI tools at work, their efficiency is higher than before, and their results are also better, but their salaries have not increased; they are even worried about being cut or possibly laid off due to the adverse economic environment.
Why do they, who have directly felt the power of AI, never think that the arrival of AI will bring them wealth opportunities? Why won't it change their social status? Instead, they feel that AI's impact is not as strong as the impact of the economic environment?
The fundamental reason is clearly presented in the above two paragraphs.
Because they are still within the familiar production relationship network. As long as they remain within that network, no matter how strong or advanced their individual abilities become, they are simply redundant regarding their position in that network and will not enhance their value within that relationship network.
Additionally, even if their individual abilities are further strengthened by AI, they cannot distribute their value or be recognized by others or by other relationship networks that need their abilities.
Thus, AI cannot enhance their returns and earnings.
The same reasoning explains why there are not many successful personal entrepreneurial AI companies today.
Because these companies are likely still doing what they did before and positioned the same way within the relationship network, with no essential changes. Although they appear to be new companies using new tools (AI) and producing more impressive results, they do not bring additional value to the overall production relationship network, and naturally cannot yield additional returns.
Only by changing the existing production relationship network, constructing new production relations, becoming new nodes in the new network, and participating in the reallocation of traffic and resources can one obtain new pricing power and influence, achieving excess returns.
This also explains why the valuations of leading AI companies today are constantly rising, and expectations are continuously soaring.
Because they are continuously crashing into the existing production relationship network, constructing new production relations, becoming the most critical nodes in the new network, and obtaining the latest pricing power and influence.
They enter the realm of mathematicians today and the field of pharmaceutical research tomorrow…
How many people's interests will that impact?
How many existing production relationship networks will that change?
It is simply limitless.
Therefore, in the era of AI, those who cannot use AI tools to find new production relationships and identify new positions within a new relationship network, no matter how many or how high their AI skills and tools are, the significance and value will be quite limited.
Meanwhile, encryption technology is the most direct means to change production relationships.
How it will reshape our existing production relationships and create new nodes in the future is still very unclear to us.
But one thing I have been able to clearly feel over the years:
Every change creates a new relationship; of course, this relationship may ultimately prove to have no value, or it may later be shown that its previous form was incorrect. However, at the time this relationship network was created, anyone who joined it and became a node easily grasped the opportunity for wealth.
ICO, DeFi, NFT, chain games, inscriptions, memes…
None of these are exceptions.
Many of them were found to be bubbles afterward, but during their growth, they indeed formed a new production relationship network, and people who were part of that network or joined it relatively early indeed experienced unforgettable "get-rich" moments.
Understanding this relationship and reasoning clearly will reduce many barriers to our progress in the future while opening up many new ideas.
Reference Links:
https://x.com/myanTokenGeek/status/2102984539836649701?s=20
https://x.com/fankaishuoai/status/2103043935333658739?s=20
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