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by onlyrealcuzzo 255 days ago
> adoption is low to nonexistent outside of programming

Odd way to describe ChatGPT which has >1B users.

AI overviews have rolled out to ~3B users, Gemini has ~200M users, etc.

Adoption is far from low.
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TheCapeGreek 255 days ago
> AI overviews have rolled out to ~3B users

Does that really count as adoption, when it has been introduced as a default feature?

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onlyrealcuzzo 255 days ago
Yes, if people are interacting with them, which they are.

HN seems to think everyone is like in the bubble here, which thinks AI is completely useless and wants nothing to do with it.

Half the world is interacting with it on a regular basis already.

Are we anywhere near AGI? Probably not.

Does it matter? Probably not.

Inference costs are dropping like a rock, and usage is continuing to skyrocket.

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majewsky 254 days ago
I am interacting with AI daily through Google products. YouTube is consistently giving me auto-translated titles that are either hilarious or wrong, and I desparately want to turn this bullshit off, but I can't, because it's not giving me an option.

That's the kind of adoption that should just be put up for adoption instead.

(And of course, the reason that I can tell that the auto-translated video titles are hilarious and/or wrong is because they are translating into a language that I speak from a language that I also speak, but apparently the YouTube app's dev team cannot fathom that a person might speak more than one language.)

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ACCount37 255 days ago
Mostly agreed, but AI overviews are a very bad example. Google can just force feed its massive search user base whatever bullshit it damn pleases. Even if it has negative value to the users.

I don't actually think that AI overviews have "negative value" - they have their utility. There are cases where I stop my search right after reading the "AI overview". But "organic" adoption of ChatGPT or Claude or even Gemini and "forced" adoption of AI overviews are two different beasts.

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neutronicus 255 days ago
My father (in his 70s) has started specifically looking for the AI overview, FWIW.

He has not engaged with any chatbot, but he thinks of himself as "using AI now" and thinks of it as a value-add.

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