Or 10x the skill and speed of a human in some specific class of recurrent tasks. We don't need full super-human AGI for AI to become economically viable.
Companies routinely pay short-term contractors a lot more than their permanent staff.
If you can just unleash AI on any of your problems, without having to commit to anything long term, it might still be useful, even if they charged more than for equivalent human labour.
(Though I suspect AI labour will generally trend to be cheaper than humans over time for anything AIs can do at all.)
