Slow?? AI is literally being shoved into everything. It took only several years to see AI being advertised as a magic pill everywhere.

It’s not meeting the expectations, probably because of this aggressive advertising. But I would in no way say that it’s spreading slow. It is fast.

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kaoD 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They mean slow to actually be used by people. Doesn't matter that it's shoved everywhere if in the end there are 0 users clicking the magic wand icon.

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skeletal88 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is it. I don't want to use some kind of AI search in fb messenger, I want to find someone to send them a message. I don't need AI search in google, I don't need it in gmail. What I need is search that actually works, there is no need to replace existing search functionality with "AI".

It is shoved everywhere but nobody really needs it.

	▲	SAI_Peregrinus 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		My employer has Glean AI search. It's better than Atlassian's search for Jira/Confluence, and can simultaneously search Slack, Google Drive, & more tools where we've haphazardly scattered important documentation like sqwrls with ADHD. Being better than Atlassian's search isn't a difficult hurdle to clear, but it's one of the only areas where I've seen a noticeable improvement caused by an "AI" product. Not sure the search actually uses AI or just happens to be a decent cross-product search tool, there's a separate interface to chat with it & have it summarize things so the search might not really be using the AI.

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mathw 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That one is fairly easy isn't it - it's because it's not very good. Or at least, it doesn't live up to its own hype.

The thrashing wails of people who've spent billions on something that they should have done more due diligence on and don't want to write off their investment.

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palata 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I came to say this. How could anyone consider this "slow"?

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benterix 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Right but are people are actually using it? Do they even want to use it? In my circles, AI is a synonym of slop, low value, something annoying that you need to deal around like ads.

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JimDabell 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yes, people are using it. ChatGPT alone had 800M WAU back in April, that’s basically 10% of the human race they acquired as users in a few short years. This has taken off like a rocket so it’s utterly bizarre to see people asking why it’s slow to spread.

	▲	JackSlateur 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		45% of which are less than 25 yo And what does this mean ? "Around 62% of ChatGPT's social media traffic comes via YouTube."

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rckt 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I completely agree. It's an enforced spread, but still.

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gregjor 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Agree. It has spread like toenail fungus, infecting almost everything with half-baked and useless AI features.

The Economist should look for businesses that have actually used AI to get measurable benefits, or tried and failed to do so, rather than falling back on niche studies of organizational behavior.