The Anthropic Economic Index

Post by Cheer2171 » Mon, Feb 10, 2025, 9:01 PM UTC

falafels wrote: post #152

ryao wrote: post #82

Their promise not to train on the conversations seemed to imply that conversations were private. It is disconcerting that they were not. The extent to which you need to look for loopholes in privacy guarantees these days is amazing.

I listened to an interview a while back with the researchers did this analysis. They developed privacy-preserving techniques, avoiding having to read user conversations directly. This is Anthropic we're talking about, they're rightly recognized as the 'ethical' AI company.

Post by skeeter2020 » Mon, Feb 10, 2025, 9:05 PM UTC

beefnugs wrote: post #153

alwa wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A mentor I respect memorably explained to young me that “it doesn’t matter how big the pot of soup, you can use the same size spoon to taste it.”

Sorry but that mentor has a small practical imagination, a pot can be so large that the top 3 feet that you reach with that spoon could be all oil

Post by salynchnew » Mon, Feb 10, 2025, 9:14 PM UTC

frankfrank13 wrote: post #92

This more or less confirms what I imagine most of us thought, AI is mostly used by engineers, or for engineering tasks. Makes sense, I wonder how much traffic comes from automated tasks (co-pilot, etc). Every time I read a report like this I do wonder if we'll ever see an ROI on LLMs. HUNDREDS of billions of dollars of spend, and 3 years in its still primarily the same crowd using it, and has yet to create a "killer"…

Post by taurknaut » Mon, Feb 10, 2025, 9:25 PM UTC

kanbankaren wrote: post #127

steveBK123 wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the problem is the data. Software engineering is a weird niche that is both a high paying job and something you can almost self-teach from widely available free online content. If not self-teach, you can rely on free online content for troubleshooting, examples, etc. A lot of other industries/jobs are more of an apprenticeship model, with little data and even less freely available on open internet.

> Software engineering is a weird niche that is both a high paying job and something you can almost self-teach If you meant programming, I agree it could be self-taught, but not SE. SE is the set of techniques, practices, tools that we have collected over decades for producing multi-versioned software that meets a certain reliability rating. Not all of these is freely available online.

Post by frankfrank13 » Mon, Feb 10, 2025, 9:34 PM UTC

tzury wrote: post #108

frankfrank13 wrote: post #92

This more or less confirms what I imagine most of us thought, AI is mostly used by engineers, or for engineering tasks. Makes sense, I wonder how much traffic comes from automated tasks (co-pilot, etc). Every time I read a report like this I do wonder if we'll ever see an ROI on LLMs. HUNDREDS of billions of dollars of spend, and 3 years in its still primarily the same crowd using it, and has yet to create a "killer"…

Claude is indeed far more familiar amongst software engineers. Google Gemini integration into their docs/sheets/slides and Gmail perhaps will show different demographics in a few months, and that is yet before we heard from OpenAI.