That's just weird. I don't get how something like this gets published when I need 8 rounds of approvals for a button.
100000%! Ariane approvals have had more reviews than this
Google’s ATLAS is a look at how people are using AI
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#12Look, say what you will about Ed but when you compare his analysis against numbers and data like what we see from Google here you can’t help but see a difference https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-openai-bubble/
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#13The study uses Gemini data to draw conclusions about AI usage for economically useful work. Hopefully it is obvious that this is a fatally flawed approach due to inherent bias in limiting your data collection to one model which is uneven in its capabilities (as all models are) and therefore biased in what work people use it for. I might as well write a paper about the economic uses of power tools by analyzing how drill presses are used.
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#14In other words - "We don't like the reporting around how bad the economics of AI are, so we're cherry picking our own data, presenting it out of context, and asking you to look at it through rose tinted spectacles."
My startup is using AI every day.
My company (not my startup, my normal day to day work) spends millions on ai token every month.
I use AI every day for different things.
AI/GenAI disrupted already a lot of peoples jobs in real life.
And Google states very early "However within jobs, people are using AI selectively: in a typical job AI is used for only ~21% of tasks."
Did you read the article? Can you point out specific things you really don't like and think they are cherry picking?
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#15In other words - "We don't like the reporting around how bad the economics of AI are, so we're cherry picking our own data, presenting it out of context, and asking you to look at it through rose tinted spectacles."
It's not a report about the economics of AI. It's a report on how people are using Google's AI. They don't mention anything about the supply side.
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#16Understanding the AI Economy , brought to you by Google, one of the companies with the largest vested interests in the AI economy.
And yet, it seems like Google doesn't understand the AI Economy :) But it doesn't prevent them from pretending they do Y)
They release real numbers from their practical expereince running on of the biggest ai based agents on the whole planet.
You wrote a snarky comment without content.
Would love to actually have a real discussion about critisism like this (not because i'm affiliated with google at all, but because I like to expand my knowledge through discussions)
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#17A very positive spin. I fear that AI will be a tool for the rich and a toy for the richer. It will sadly divide the people Geographically (rich countries affording data centres and nationalised models) and poorer countries missing out. It will divide socio-economically, the rich affording tokens becomes the land/knowledge owners/hackers and the poor becomes the labourers.
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#18How’s this for a working theory. Economic actors that were established doing the “easy stuff” that got displaced first got a head start on everyone else and started low balling on the harder stuff and that’s why we’re seeing impacts in the parts of the economy that aren’t being directly hit by AI. It could explain why people who know stuff are finding themselves squeezed for cost in every direction even though their specific area defies automation. There is a latency at play here while all the corner cutting of the cost based competitors mount. Not sure what is the outcome when the inevitable correction kicks in but the economic impact will be long lasting as skilled workers leave the industry and we are left with decades of slop to clean up.
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#19This is basically reading about heroin adoption from the heroin dealer. I’ll take information from multiple independent analysts please.
This is one of multiply independent analysises.
I do not follow your argument.
Would you read this and say 'this is now the only truth'?
I mean i read it and will add it to multiply other sources. Now i know what / how google seas things and i try to get something from it.
i find it very ignorant if one of the biggest ai companies on the planet posts something and its just getting dismissed. You don't have to follow google every word, but it def adds to an overall picture even if you don't take everything as true
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#20In other words - "We don't like the reporting around how bad the economics of AI are, so we're cherry picking our own data, presenting it out of context, and asking you to look at it through rose tinted spectacles."
To an extent, but their main points match my own perspective:
-AI use at work is broad but shallow: -At work, most AI use is focused on collaboration and assistance with tasks, and so far task automation is uncommon:
Both of the above happen for a reason and if you work at any bigger corp ( esp publicly owned ), it is easy to understand why.
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What I did find more amusing though was the coded cry for help ' To get there, we as a society must work together".