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State of AI Report 2025

https://www.stateof.ai/
82•SMAAART•4d ago

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cs702•1w ago
This is fantastic.

Highly recommended reading for anyone here interested in the state of AI.

It covers multiple fronts, including research, applications, politics, and safety.

Thank you for sharing this on HN!

CaptainOfCoit•15h ago
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.

ourguile•15h ago
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.

Insanity•15h ago
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•14h ago
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•12h ago
Or googling something that shows an AI overview?
trenchpilgrim•14h ago
I mean, does a Google search count as "using AI"?
maffyoo•14h ago
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
CaptainOfCoit•14h ago
> 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!

AznHisoka•11h ago
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.

noosphr•14h ago
In my circles it is obviously 100%.
Ekaros•14h ago
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...

mercurialsolo•15h ago
da hype is real
blibble•14h ago
> Produced by AI investor

I'll pass

good to know on the front page though, thanks

iLoveOncall•14h ago
Yeah, even without taking that into account, the bias is obvious and extreme.
scyzoryk_xyz•13h ago
They bought a cool url gotta give em that.

looking up stateof.lol

username223•12h ago
Nathan Benaich, who hasn't updated his profile in awhile: https://www.twitter.com/nathanbenaich . Probably not helpful.
signatoremo•11h ago
Did you read Backblaze drive stats reports such as [1]? Who do you think prepare them?

AI investors have vast interest in staying on top of what’s going on. It’s wise to follow them. Everyone is biased, including you and myself.

[1] -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43013431

ffsm8•6h ago
The black blaze stats were published by AI investors?

Or given the HDD setting, HDD investors? Are you sure they weren't published by the technical people that actually analyzed the failure rates of disks? ... instead of polling for opinions from Internet strangers, on platforms that are full of bots?

zkmon•14h ago
Quite a comprehensive report. But things look too rosy when the phenomenon is at the peak of hype cycle. So I was curious to see what the Predictions tab has to say. It has disappointed me with the "current-state" news again, not really any predictions.
1970-01-01•14h ago
Opening with is the most widely read and trusted analysis of key developments in AI.

Automatic and instant reject.

nextworddev•14h ago
Meta observation: this has to be the third most hated rally I have seen, only topped by Tesla and EVs in 2020 and crude oil in 2007
noosphr•14h ago
When one's job is potentially on the line one becomes a Luddite rather quickly.
GolfPopper•14h ago
Butlerian, surely.
CaptainOfCoit•14h ago
What profession do you have that made you a Luddite based on the current state of LLMs and AI?

I'm an artist, programmer and musician, and is no closer to being a Luddite today than five years ago, not sure why others would either. Anti-capitalist or Anti-fascist I'd understand, considering the state of the world and the current direction.

CaptainOfCoit•1h ago
FWIW, I was genuinely curious about what exactly made parent a Luddite, but after the LLM responses I don't think I have any curiosity left.
nextworddev•13h ago
lol this. No one wants to admit this when it comes to explaining why AI adoption is slow
xnx•13h ago
Everyone wants to use AI themselves so they can work less. No one wants their boss to use AI to replace them.
nextworddev•13h ago
Exactly. Which is why businesses want to get rid of middle management, since middle managers thrive on having HC
smallnix•13h ago
But then upper management becomes middle management. Or headcount is consolidated and still quantifies a mega-middlemanagers worth.
nextworddev•12h ago
Gotta start at some tree depth..
lenkite•5h ago
Provide a good UBI that covers the living bills and I think people won't mind their boss using AI to replace them.
oxqbldpxo•14h ago
The state of Ai: perplexity replaced google.
nextworddev•13h ago
Anecdotally perplexity scaled back their plans to sell ads, because no one was interested in..
mNovak•13h ago
A lot of fair criticisms of the splash page here. But, I'll say the slide deck has a nice comprehensive review of research headlines over the year, at least.
cs702•13h ago
I find the deck remarkably comprehensive and in-depth for what it is.

The negativity here is a bit shocking. I mean, we're talking about a deck!

bigbuppo•13h ago
And their highlights conveniently ignored any and all negatives except for the one they could spin into a positive. It's almost like it's in their best interest to sell you a future so bright you gotta' wear million dollar shades.
jeetsundareep•13h ago
We are reading this report in the best tech circles of IIT Mumbai. E = MC2+ AI
dingnuts•13h ago
> E = MC2+ AI

this is so cringy

jeetsundareep•13h ago
On the contrary; it is prominent to leverage the synergy of ontological orthogonalities to maximize a diverse approach.
sponnath•13h ago
This is peak pseudo-intellectualism.
rester324•12h ago
This is even cringier
this_steve_j•10h ago
I like the cut of this jibe.
bgwalter•13h ago
It does hold for AI==0. I like it!
parliament32•13h ago
Context: https://old.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/comments/13tbfqm/w...
dgfitz•13h ago
The headline is flawed, nothing that exists today is relatively close to “AI” unfortunately.
spaceman_2020•13h ago
The state of AI as an end user is that despite language being its primary tool, AI is a pretty terrible writer

Even the best models write like mediocre fiction writers at best

tsunamifury•13h ago
I love how delusional normalized users get. 3 years ago the idea of an AI writing as a mediocre writer was world changing

It still is.

amlib•10h ago
3 to 4 years ago chat gpt2 wrote much more creative stories, its faults actually made interesting and absurd concoctions out of it's training material. Nowadays its just a machine for plagiarizing works and laundering copyright.
joemazerino•8h ago
As if artists and writers don't deliberately plagiarize works and combine them to make something new.
AznHisoka•11h ago
https://x.com/nathanbenaich/status/1947943376789143848?s=46

Looka like they just asked their target audience these survey questions. Which is highly biased, to say the least.

beefnugs•9h ago
Yes I guess asking 1200 "ai practitioners" would give you 95% ai-users... but what is with the 5 percent? 60 people are ai-liars? Anti-Survey anarchists?
AznHisoka•8h ago
they probably used AI to answer the survey and those were hallucinated answers...