ByJoe McKendrick,

Senior Contributor.

We’re only beginning to discover what kinds of previously-never-thought-of innovations artificial intelligence is making possible.

“It blows my mind that, at the dawn of the artificial intelligence era, our idea of revolutionary tech is to slap AI onto some enterprise resource planner,” said Sam Wright, head of partnerships at Huntr. "We stand at a paradigm shift, and we need to realign our goalposts.”

The transition means evolving from AI-as-labor replacement to AI-as-innovation machine. “So much of the conversation around AI focuses on either how it can enhance the work that humans do, making it faster, or easier, or how it can do work instead of humans,” said Shauli Mizrahi, co-founder and CTO at Rep AI. "We’ll see more innovative thinking about AI as a means to do jobs that either don’t exist or are incredibly non-scalable.”