Eric Schmidt (ex-Google CEO) told Noema last year that AI is evolving so fast, we’ll be living in a fundamentally different world within five years—not ten.
- Bold prediction – and it wasn’t from a sci-fi futurist.
- Agents are coming – not just chatbots, but AI entities that reason, act, and collaborate.
- Millions of them – Schmidt expected agents to operate at massive scale.
- Pace is the shock – it’s not just what AI can do, but how fast it’s changing.
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The kicker? That interview was a year ago. We’ve got four years left.
