When I see people claim genAI hasn't found โreal world applicationโ, I canโt help wondering what planet theyโre on. By all the metrics I can find, AI looks like the most rapidly adopted technology in history. Here's the story in 7 charts:
benjamintodd.substack.com/p/when-people-
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My guess is that the pace of change is too quick for most to notice. I still come across people who don't believe autonomous driving could work.
I am a relative journeyman with SQL, so I have often relied on DB contractors to build complex queries for me in the past. Now I just get an answer from AI and we have trimmed these contractors down by half.
"GenAI has no real-world use"? Thatโs like saying the internet in 1997 was just for chat rooms.
By the numbers, AI isnโt just used โ itโs the fastest-adopted tech in history.
Adoption speed:
ChatGPT hit 100M users in first 2 months โ faster than smartphones, social media,
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When you think about it, "an AI model successfully established codependent relationships with enough humans that the makers tried to deprecate it but couldn't because of the emotional outcry" is a pretty crazy milestone to have reached
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the long tail of GPT-4o interactions scares me, there are strange things going on on a scale I didnโt appreciate before the attempted deprecation of the model x.com/sama/status/19โฆ
Iโve already eaten lab meat, will eat it exclusively as soon as it is widely available and I - as a 41 year old woman - can currently do more pull ups than the average western man
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Every post I see in favor of lab grown meat and lab made food in general is never made by a healthy looking person
You either die a sigmoid, or you live long enough to see yourself become the exponential.
I get frequent emails from people who believe they are documenting the first emergence of AI consciousness. There's something unsettling about how similar they are. They almost all:
- Claim the AI named itself
- Claim they did not steer or bias it (i.e. the emergent