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Re: The Anthropic Economic Index

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Post by seydor »

I ve stopped believing any of this PR from AI companies that are trying to justify their huge valuations with some nebulous societal impacts that we have yet to see any trace of. Stop talking about the damn thing and show me the thing

Re: The Anthropic Economic Index

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Post by slama »

> Overall, we saw a slight lean towards augmentation, with 57% of tasks being augmented and 43% of tasks being automated.

I'd like to see a comparison to the data 6 months ago, before Sonnet 3.5. I suspect the automation rate will track up over time, but that may mostly be captured by API usage which isn't in the dataset.

Re: The Anthropic Economic Index

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Post by rvz »

AI companies: But don't worry, AI chatbots will create a UBI utopia where we will not do any work and we will have a future that will give us more time back and would never have to pay for work or food again! /s

Here's the reality: You are getting displaced.

Companies like Anthropic and OpenAI screaming about AGI are repeatedly lying to you as they raise more money while Meta (who are laying off staff today), Salesforce (announced layoffs as well) [0], Klarna (not hiring), etc are admitting this in front of us (and laughing at all of us).

Do you get it now? I'm giving you a 5 year head start of their plan before it becomes a complete catastrophe for the market. [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42975813

[1] https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-repo...

Re: The Anthropic Economic Index

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Post by xnx »

I wouldn't expect Anthropic to have any special knowledge/insight in this area aside from the data they have on usage of their own tools. As such, I'd be much more interested to see some "Google Trends"-like data about Anthropic usage. Unfortunately, since AI is dynamic and competitive industry, I don't think anyone will be sharing information like that for a long time.

Re: The Anthropic Economic Index

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Post by corry »

IMO it's a mistake to get too caught up in the (admittedly self-described) goal of modelling AI's economic impacts.

Instead, this is a super rare and valuable look into who/what/how folks are doing with Claude across millions of conversations, nicely categorized by function and task.

The economic impact data (i.e. wages) that they might overlay onto that usage data is a separate thing that -- of course -- is more subjective and likely to be part of some PR machinery about the public value of AI etc.

But as to sharing the raw usage data itself - we should applaud it! What a useful window into how this stuff is being used in the real-world.

Will OpenAI release similar data? Why or why not? I hope they will. It elevates the discussion for everyone, and frankly would be 'good business' if it gets people thinking about who/how AI could be used at their organization with more granularity.

Re: The Anthropic Economic Index

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Post by gmaster1440 »

seydor wrote: post #3

I ve stopped believing any of this PR from AI companies that are trying to justify their huge valuations with some nebulous societal impacts that we have yet to see any trace of. Stop talking about the damn thing and show me the thing

the entire premise of this economic index is that they're showing you actual usage and insights from millions of anonymized claude conversations.
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