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AI technology adoption will be much faster than the internet because infrastructure already exists.

Predictor: Ben Horowitz · ep#232 "Ben Horowitz: xAI Executive Exodus, Apple's AI Crisis, The Pace of AI | EP #232" · source

Prior probability
55.0%
Current probability
46.3%
evolves via intake + LBP
Conviction
4/5
Signal quality
C
Resolution
pending
Window
2028-06-01 – 2028-06-30
Edges in / out
8 / 5
Tickers exposed
33

Prediction text

AI technology adoption will be much faster than the internet because infrastructure already exists. | with AI uh we already have the internet so the technology adoption is is much much I think it's going to be much much faster than say the internet where we had to build out you know all of the infrastructure all the fiber all all the all the various things you had to um you know broadband to the house like there were so many things we had to do to get the internet adopted and this is going to just piggyback off that and be distributed very very past.

Verbatim quote

From episode "Ben Horowitz: xAI Executive Exodus, Apple's AI Crisis, The Pace of AI | EP #232"
with AI uh we already have the internet so the technology adoption is is much much I think it's going to be much much faster than say the internet where we had to build out you know all of the infrastructure all the fiber all all the all the various things you had to um you know broadband to the house like there were so many things we had to do to get the internet adopted and this is going to just piggyback off that and be distributed very very past.

Predictor: Ben Horowitz

κ + Brier as of 2026-05-22
κ (discount)
0.500
Brier
Hits / Misses
0 / 0
Hit rate

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Reference class

Not linked

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Probability over time

4 prob_history rows
0%25%50%75%100%prior 55%2026-04-302026-05-032026-05-10
intake v2milestone miss sweeplbp propagationreference class assignedlegacy v1prior_prob (analyst seed)current = 46.3%

Milestone chain

Pre-event signals (upstream prereqs + window checkpoints) → resolution event → downstream cascades. Status/dates update from linked nodes; re-derive nightly via scripts/ops/derive_milestones.py.
Leading chain: 9 fired ✓ · 1 pending
  1. 2026-02-01hitChatGPT reaches 900M weekly active users (>2x YoY)
    How: OpenAI publicly reports ChatGPT WAU >=900M in early 2026 vs ~400M Feb 2025
    Source: DemandSage / Incremys ChatGPT Statistics 2026conf 95%
    Notes: HIT — 900M WAU confirmed Feb 2026. ChatGPT reached 100M users in 60 days vs Instagram's 2.5 years — direct evidence faster-than-internet adoption.
  2. 2026-01-31hitAI inference cost drops 90%+ vs 2023 baseline
    How: Per-million-token inference cost on frontier-class models falls >=90% from early 2023 levels
    Source: Brownstone Research: Cost of Intelligence; Information Difference: Cost of Inferenceconf 95%
    Notes: HIT — 92% inference cost decline since 2023 documented. OpenAI doubling time 5.8 months, Google 3.4 months.
  3. 2026-04-15hitDaily AI commerce queries on ChatGPT exceed 50M
    How: OpenAI or third-party analytics confirm >=50M daily purchasable-product queries on ChatGPT
    Source: Stripe Agentic Commerce Suite launch; opascope Agentic Commerce Guide 2026conf 85%
    Notes: HIT — ~53M daily commerce queries confirmed, evidence of commerce-layer AI adoption riding on existing internet.
  4. 2025-05-31hitAdoption growth in lowest-income countries 4x higher than highest-income
    How: OpenAI or research firm publishes data showing AI adoption growth rates in low-income countries 4x+ high-income
    Source: OpenAI usage geography report May 2025; ChatGPT Statistics 2026conf 80%
    Notes: HIT — observed 4x+ growth-rate gap by May 2025. Confirms hypothesis: existing internet enables faster adoption than internet itself enjoyed.
  5. 2027-01-01 → 2028-06-30pendingGenerative AI reaches 50% US adult adoption faster than internet did
    How: Pew or Gallup confirm >=50% US adults regularly use generative AI within 5 years of ChatGPT launch (vs internet ~7 years to 50%)
    Source: Pew Research, Gallup AI usage trackingconf 65%
    Notes: Direct comparable test of Horowitz claim. ChatGPT launched Nov 2022; 50% US adults by 2027-2028 = 5-6 years vs internet's 7.

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Evidence chain

Every probability update with full Bayesian provenance — chronological, latest first
LBP2026-05-10T02:00:02Z46.3%-1.1pp
Network propagation: 47.4% → 46.3%
6-iter LBP, residual 0.00584 · damping 0.5, w_intrinsic 0.5 · method lbp_v3 · run e5c18d29
LBP2026-05-03T02:00:01Z47.4%-1.7pp
Network propagation: 49.1% → 47.4%
6-iter LBP, residual 0.00677 · damping 0.5, w_intrinsic 0.5 · method lbp_v3 · run 1a683ac9
LBP2026-04-30T16:39:51Z49.1%-2.4pp
Network propagation: 51.5% → 49.1%
5-iter LBP, residual 0.00825 · damping 0.5, w_intrinsic 0.5 · method lbp_v2 · run 0c8a4ea3
LBP2026-04-30T02:18:57Z51.5%-3.5pp
Network propagation: 55.0% → 51.5%
5-iter LBP, residual 0.00825 · damping 0.5, w_intrinsic 0.5 · method lbp_v1 · run 592311ef

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Ticker exposure

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Linked documents (1)

Auto-generated by cosine similarity from Polymarket / Manifold / EDGAR / GDELT
SimSourceTitleMarket probPolarityReviewedPublished
0.725manifoldWill artificial intelligence change everyday life more than the internet did52%mentionspending2026-06-05

Raw metadata

From Thesis_Timeline_v1.0_FINAL workbook
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