My company 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 specific things you really don't like and think they are cherry picking?
How much profit does the AI company make from those tokens?
My company is a two digit billion dollar revenue company in the top 100.
My point was that real companies pay real money for AI.
But i use it daily at work and a lot of co-workers do too.
And we spend $3b/yr just to make sure our I is capitalized.
Reading the post, I had to keep thinking “why are they only talk about how people use it at work, and nothing about possible economic outcomes?”. Or “titled Understanding the AI Economy, but it avoids all the big questions”. Or “is it written for the investors who think Google has over-invested in capex?”. And I might be overthinking about all this! But when you have billions of billions dollars invested, it’s hard to take any word as is.
I’ll take information from multiple independent analysts please.
I do not follow your argument.
Would you read this and say 'this is now the only truth'?
I mean i read it and will add it to multiply other sources. Now i know what / how google seas things and i try to get something from it.
i find it very ignorant if one of the biggest ai companies on the planet posts something and its just getting dismissed. You don't have to follow google every word, but it def adds to an overall picture even if you don't take everything as true
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.
I am 100% using AI to figure out wtf to do about my 3am plumbing problem.
/joke
After I have the water turned off, I’m going to back to sleep to call a plumber during regular hours.
No chance I'd trust Gemini to correctly tell me which wire was the high voltage one.
You're absolutely right! I apologize for providing a factually incorrect explanation. You asked a question, and I gave you incorrect information that put you in danger. That failure is entirely on my side as an AI system, not on you for following what you were told.
There is already deterministic procedural stuff for all of those cases. Putting a chat bot in front of that is basically fucking stupid.
So far I've learned 480V is very unforgiving and can show up in surprising places.
No latter than yesterday I used Gemini to tell me which kind of power adapter was compatible with an old SNES chinese backuping device [1] (a device you'd plug instead of a cartdridge into the SNES and then you could make backups of cartdridges on to 3.5 floppy disks. You could then run the games from those backups. Conveniently you could also "backup" your friends' cartdridges.. Heck, there was even a tiny demo scene for the SNES and you could swap disks with little demos written for the SNES -- just like for the Amiga).
It was a bit tricky in that Gemini explained me I needed a reverse polarity adapter or I risked bricking everything.
Now, granted, the stakes weren't very high but... Gemini got it right and I could start the SNES, with the chinese "Super Pro Fighter" backuping device just fine.
[1] this thing: https://videogamedevelopmentdevices.fandom.com/wiki/Super_Pr...
For an article about the AI economy, there is no mention of economy.
Anyone know why they did this? Once I saw it, it became too distracting.
Notice that nobody who actually innovated on the technology ever speaks on it.
It’s always these thieves from academia and Google who act like they’re the inventors. Trying to explain to us - the people they have been ripping off for years - how “AI works”
Go home Google
What value does Google has to cherry-pick the occupation metrics?
It simply comes off as a marketing advert for a company who’s sunk billions upon billions into something they’ve yet to be able to monetize (see latest report). Stock holders are getting annoyed, like in other companies, about the lack of the promised returns, this is firefighting.
Nobody is really debating AI has a use case, but maybe, just maybe, the chase into infinite spending we’ve seen the last years wasn’t that well thought out.
Im missing the marketing opportunity here.
The spending is a complete different topic though. Google/ABC can easily afford their investments. Microsoft and Amazon too. Even if shareholders are not that happy (the shareprice of alphabet doesn't tell this story though) with it.
Nonetheless the biggest issue with this spending are 401k and other retirement investments from people who can't control the investment and the undefined risk of it. Thats the only real 'risk' (not a small one for these people depending on it though).
It doesn't affect me if Google spends its money on AI.
Nonetheless the progress on AI is huge, it still hasn't slowed down, its now a political and global issue (us export restrictions, Chinas Moonshot AI/Deepseek, EU lagging behind).
At least form my point of view, i'm very surprised that we even risk all of this investment and see it as a possitive thing. Imagine AI/AGI is a technology which sits very far away from our current local minimum and the jump to the other local minimum is massivly expensive but massivly beneficial?
GPT-2/3 was able to inflict this vision into people and because of this, we get A LOT more compute, push again boundaries on compute and memory after a longer period of stagnation. These richest companies in the world like Google also leverage the AI spend into investment of fusion and other energy sources.
We already got a lot better vision ML algorithm because of this (tx to suckerbergs dino and segment anything), we have alphafold tx to Googles Deepmind etc.
AI only consumes currently a little bit more about bitcoin but is acutally beneficial.
-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 get there, we as a society must work together".
Also if all the built-in AI buttons could actually automate tasks instead of just telling you how they're unable to automate tasks.
Demis is busy create another PR documentary lionizing himself so he can capture the google crown. Always says whole bunch of nothing to a fawning interviewers who is projecting brilliance and profundity on his every word.
OuterVale•51m ago
miroljub•47m ago
But it doesn't prevent them from pretending they do Y)
Xalutiono•39m ago
You wrote a snarky comment without content.
Would love to actually have a real discussion about critisism like this (not because i'm affiliated with google at all, but because I like to expand my knowledge through discussions)