The age of the A(I)gent is here and most businesses are not ready

By Abhinav Chetan, Founder of Digital For Nonprofits (D4NP) and Digicated.ai

The telephone took 75 years to reach mass adoption. Electricity took 46. Radio did it in 25, and television in 22. The smartphone compressed that timeline to under a decade. Guess how much time did it take ChatGPT? It was 60 days.
Technology diffusion has always followed a predictable arc. Governments adopted first, enterprises scaled it, consumers followed after.

Large language models broke this pattern completely. A hundred million people were using ChatGPT before most boardrooms had discussed it. Consumers got AI in their pockets before enterprises had it in their systems. And now those same consumers aren’t just chatting with AI, they’re delegating decisions to AI agents that can act on their behalf.

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To understand how we got here, let us trace the arc of AI evolution. Sam ...