> Note they may even believe that today's AI systems may not be much of a net benefit, but they probably see the state of the art advancing quickly so that companies who take a wait-and-see approach will be late to the game when AI is a substantial productivity enhancer.

This doesn't make a huge amount of sense, because the stuff is changing so quickly anyway. It's far from clear that, in the hypothetical future where this stuff is net-useful in five years, experience with _today's_ tools will be of any real use at all.