These AI threads seem to attract the same kind of repetitive, low-effort dismissals that crypto threads used to.
Google’s ATLAS is a look at how people are using AI
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#22"Less than 10% of those interactions fully automate tasks." - that's because they are measuring use of Google's models. People are using Antrophic's models for automation and coding. My wife is from a tribe in the mountains where they live like they live off the land, cooking with fire like they did 1000 years ago. She uses Gemini to learn how to live in the city - book flights and hotels, stuff like that. I use Claude Code every day to automate my tasks. Google has a very different type of user than Antrophic and Open AI.
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#23In 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. edit: What I did find more amusing though was the coded cry for help ' To ge…
I wonder if there would be more task automation if providers didn't ban you for automating tasks.
Also if all the built-in AI buttons could actually automate tasks instead of just telling you how they're unable to automate tasks.
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#24> AI use at work is broad but shallow: Workplace adoption spans all industry sectors and also 68% of all occupations that collectively represent 90% of total U.S. employment.
Im sorry but what? Plumbers, electricians, framers, welders, auto workers, hotel staff, restaurant staff are these people using AI in their jobs? Does someone at google think that these very much manual labor jobs are only 10 percent of the work force in the US?
There is PEW data, that says 30 percent of us labor force is in manual labor / blue collar jobs. The person you call at 3am to fix your drain, isnt using AI.
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#25A 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.
+ with nation states becoming poorly run cesspools, we're going to see what happens to that.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
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. edit: What I did find more amusing though was the coded cry for help ' To ge…
I wonder if there would be more task automation if providers didn't ban you for automating tasks. Also if all the built-in AI buttons could actually automate tasks instead of just telling you how they're unable to automate tasks.
:D you just noted common issue #1
Re: Google’s ATLAS is a look at how people are using AI
#27Is this Google’s poorer version of Anthropic’s economic index?
Re: Google’s ATLAS is a look at how people are using AI
#28In 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."
I quite like that. Companies like Google, Microsoft, and Apple are simply not in a position to compete. They are always late to the party, and it is shameful. It shows that their managers are not capable of leading innovation. These companies need to go back to having real engineers drive innovation.
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#29In 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 speci…
> My company spends millions on ai token every month
How much profit does the AI company make from those tokens?
Re: Google’s ATLAS is a look at how people are using AI
#30These AI threads seem to attract the same kind of repetitive, low-effort dismissals that crypto threads used to.
And they will be proven wrong, like with crypto... oh wait.