What does AI and the light bulb have in common?

Everyone is talking about AI… and like all disruptive innovations, AI offers early adopters a huge competitive advantage. However, the advantage will be relatively short-lived. Once “everyone” has “it”, the technology will be commoditized, like every other innovation in human history. That is not to downplay the impact it is certain to make on the world. Without question, that will be incalculable. There is however one distinct difference in this digital age. Today, the speed of the commoditization process is likely to outpace the ability of displaced individuals to be trained for alternative vocations.