[CaptainOfCoit]

Worth keeping in mind this is made by a "AI investor", so obviously comes with a lot of bias. It's also a relatively tiny survey, seems only 1.2K people answered.

An example of the bias:

> shows that 95% of professionals now use AI at work or home

Obviously 95% of professionals don't use AI at work or home, and these results are heavily skewed.

[Insanity]

And what does it mean to "use AI at home or work". Firing off the occasional ChatGPT? Using one of the many chatbots that's integrated everywhere?

There's a big difference between using it like Google and really enhancing your workflow with it by automating parts of your work.

[CaptainOfCoit]

The question just says "Do you use generative AI tools in your work?", which would probably include 100% of office workers today, directly or indirectly.

Maybe the 33 people who said "No" doesn't know the implementation details so they assume it's not used anywhere in their daily professional life.

[AznHisoka]

Or googling something that shows an AI overview?

[ourguile]

I agree there is some implicit bias in this reporting, particularly because Nathan is colleagues (or at the very least previous colleagues) with Ian Hogarth, who is currently the chair of the UK AI Safety Institute, recently renamed to the "AI Security Institute".

So, I would have to take reporting on safety with a grain of salt. That said, I do think there are a lot of other interesting insights throughout the presentation.

[maffyoo]

just a quick point here; 1.2K is highly statistically significant, even for a national level poll/survey. The issue here is the potential for selection bias, which seems primarily to be driven by people who want to do the survey not sure how this ultimately skews the results but 1.2K is easily an adequate sample size

[AznHisoka]

https://x.com/nathanbenaich/status/1947943376789143848?s=46

Looka like they just asked their target audience. Which is highly biased, to say the least. And renders their large sample almost useless.

[CaptainOfCoit]

> not sure how this ultimately skews the results but 1.2K is easily an adequate sample size

I'd wager at least 90% of the survey respondents are Americans or live in the US, so that already skews the data a ton!

[Ekaros]

Okay I do toy with local image generation when I get extremely bored...

But other than that only AI use is when google forces it on me. And then gets things wrong... Which is easily found out by comparing it's output and synopsis on the links it give...

[noosphr]

In my circles it is obviously 100%.

[trenchpilgrim]

I mean, does a Google search count as "using AI"?