Azeem Azhar reviews his predictions from the past year, focusing on AI, climate change, and electric vehicles. He assesses the accuracy of his forecasts, noting successes in areas like AI development, the deployment speed of AI, the rise of AI-generated language, renewable energy adoption, and EV market growth. He acknowledges being too conservative in his predictions, discusses oversights like the CapEx boom in AI data centers and the impact on the workforce, and then looks ahead to 2027-2028, anticipating significant shifts in the tech landscape due to the growth of AI-driven startups and the integration of AI by incumbents, while also considering the potential for a speculative bubble. He concludes by posing a question about how our perspective might change recognizing we are closer to 2050 than we are to 2000.
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