Today’s AI is already weeks ahead of most workflows
The practical AI overhang is not waiting for future models: existing systems can already compress weeks of work, but most organizations have not learned what to ask them to do. Ethan Mollick describes GPT-6 Astra turning the text-only game Zork into a playable 3D adventure, while Fable 5.1 reconstructed Umberto Eco’s library from videos, photos, and catalogues, identifying about 5,000 books across 27,000 shelf slots. The gap is adoption and process, not just capability.