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Re: The Anthropic Economic Index

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Post by mbreese »

anshumankmr wrote: post #220
0xDEAFBEAD wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you look at ChatGPT search volume, you can see massive dips during the summer when school is out: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge... Which suggests that the most common use is as a tutor / cheating on homework.

This ignores people who open ChatGPT.com or use the app

But it ignores them equally throughout the year… It’s not an exact measure, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a useful metric. So long as the measurement is unbiased and captures enough of the traffic, it can still be useful.

The troughs in that graph are all during prime US school/college vacation times: Summer, Winter, and Spring breaks. And then magnitude of the fall corresponds to how long the breaks typically are. To me, that makes a lot of sense.

Re: The Anthropic Economic Index

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Post by iagooar »

I used to use Claude.ai as my go-to LLM for everything. But then my conversations around taxes and finance got very frequently patronized by the LLM and even flagged. All legal stuff! It is just that my personal tax situation is a bit more complex than other people's because of businesses I run and geographic complications (living in more than one country, etc).

It got to the point where I was forced to go to ChatGPT if I wanted to just be left alone and get my answers. Then o1, o1 pro, o3-mini and Deep Research dropped and I have almost no reason to go back to Claude anymore. These days my main use case is using it as part of Cursor for code generation / co-piloting. But that's it.

If Anthropic wants to get me back, they should treat me as an adult again.

Re: The Anthropic Economic Index

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Post by Terretta »

brookst wrote: post #202
prepend wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have to sample to see if it’s stirred well enough.

No, you can model whether stirring actions should create a representative sample

Not with immiscible layered stratified flow…

“You're gonna need a bigger spoon!”

Re: The Anthropic Economic Index

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Post by famouswaffles »

0xDEAFBEAD wrote: post #208
azinman2 wrote: post #109

I'd love to see this analysis done for ChatGPT, which has a much bigger 'consumer' marketshare. I'm also very wary of their analysis method, given classifiers-gonna-classify. We already see it in their example of someone asking why their game is crashing and it buckets them into Computer & Mathematical occupation. I'm guessing the original question was not that of a game developer but rather a game player, so can you…

If you look at ChatGPT search volume, you can see massive dips during the summer when school is out: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge... Which suggests that the most common use is as a tutor / cheating on homework.

That dip didn't exist in 2024. Site visits just increased steadily throughout last year with no summer dips.

Re: The Anthropic Economic Index

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Post by rafram »

rvnx wrote: post #83
Eextra953 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why I cancelled my chatgpt subscription and moved to claude. Its kinda silly, but I feel like the products are about equivalent for my use case so I'd rather do business with a company that is acting in good (better?) faith.

In the case they don't get high salaries from this activity, there is also a solution. The next step in ~10 years could be to offer their services to governments to offer "automated court decisions". Then the people who funded / trained this "justice" out of their good heart, would actually have leverage, in terms of concrete power. It's a much more subtle way to capture power, if you can replace the judges with your…

Thanks but no thanks.

Re: The Anthropic Economic Index

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Post by famouswaffles »

mbreese wrote: post #221
anshumankmr wrote: post #220

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This ignores people who open ChatGPT.com or use the app

But it ignores them equally throughout the year… It’s not an exact measure, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a useful metric. So long as the measurement is unbiased and captures enough of the traffic, it can still be useful. The troughs in that graph are all during prime US school/college vacation times: Summer, Winter, and Spring breaks. And then magnitude of the fall corresponds to how long the breaks typically are.…

Yeah but it's old. There was no dip in 2024, only a steady increase.

Re: The Anthropic Economic Index

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Post by Dahmonium1 »

I wonder whether a higher degree of use by a particular professional group is detrimental/threatening to that occupational group or rather to the professional groups that use it to a lesser extent. I also wonder if a number for success rate of the tasks makes for a more complete picture.

Re: The Anthropic Economic Index

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Post by srcreigh »

This is based on # of conversations started. That's it. It's just bad data to compare AI use across professions that spend vastly different amounts of time sitting at a computer not in any meetings.

Re: The Anthropic Economic Index

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Post by Artemon »

blackeyeblitzar wrote: post #97
brap wrote: post #13

Seems like Anthropic has too much money on their hands and are looking for ways to spend it. It’s surprising to see lean AI startups accumulate fat so quickly. Usually this sort of wheel spinning is reserved for large corporations. And it’s not just them. To me this trend screams “valuations are too high”, and maybe hints at “progress might start to stagnate soon”.

They only have like 500 employees. And you could argue this is part of their stated mission.

only?
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