AI's Growing Role and Mainstream Adoption Timeline

Designed as an autonomous alter ego, Avatar is adept at dealing with tasks ranging from the mundane, like filling out forms, to the particular, such as helping influencers reply to thousands of social media messages.

Zetrix hopes that by moving fast it can seize market share in a space that grows more competitive by the day, if not the hour.

“AI will play a very fundamental role in our lives,” said C.Z. Wong, the 23-year-old developer of Avatar and Zetrix’s chief AI officer. “Regardless of whether we want it or not.”

“Everyone has different forecasts, but personally … at the rate things are going, five years is my estimate for when AI becomes mainstream.”