Given the charts, that’s a ridiculous claim. Just compare early 2024 in the first chart, for example.

It’s way too early to decide whether it’s flattening out.

raincole 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's just printing headlines out of nothing. If it tried to answer why the two graphs show such different numbers (one ~14%, the other ~55%) I'd be more interested.

> Note: Data is six-survey moving average. The survey is conducted bi-weekly. Sources: US Census Bureau, Macrobond, Apollo Chief Economist

> Note: Ramp Al Index measures the adoption rate of artificial intelligence products and services among American businesses. The sample includes more than 40,000 American businesses and billions of dollars in corporate spend using data from Ramp’s corporate card and bill pay platform. Sources: Ramp, Bloomberg, Macrobond, Apollo Chief Economist

It seems that the real interesting thing to see here is that the companies using Ramp are extremely atypical.

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malisper 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Three consecutive months of decline starts to look more like a trend. Unless you think there's a transient issue causing the decline, something fundamental has changed

	▲	chrismorgan 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Again: compare early 2024. And that’s not the only thing; the second chart shows a possible flattening, but by no means certain yet, especially not when taken with the clear March–April jump; and the first chart shows no dwindling in 1–4, and clear recovery in 250+. The lie is easily put to the claim the article makes: > Data from the Census Bureau and Ramp shows that AI adoption rates are starting to flatten out across all firm sizes, see charts below. It’s flat-out nonsense, and anyone with any experience in this kind of statistics can see it.

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scotty79 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Especially interesting is the adoption by the smallest companies. This means people find it still increasingly useful at the grassroot level where things are actually done.

At larger companies adoption will probably stop at the level where managers will start to be threatened.

	▲	crote 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		But what does that grassroot adoption look like in practice? Is that a developer spending $250/month on Claude, or is it a local corner shop using it once a month to replace their clip art flyer with AI slop, and the example contract they previously found via Google with some legalese gobbledygook ChatGPT hallucinated? Giving AI away for free to people who don't give a rat's ass about the quality of its output isn't very difficult. But that's not exactly going to pay your datacenter bill...