I honestly don’t know who the audience could be, other than “people who like to tell others they’re in the know because they read AI companies’ press releases.”

I honestly don’t know who the audience could be, other than “people who like to tell others they’re in the know because they read AI companies’ press releases.” At no point do I see an actual elevator pitch/tl;dr/summary of what the frak this index actually is, except that it’s part of some effort to track AI adoption. It just rains down figures about which industries are using how much AI without first grounding the new concept they’re introducing. When you say you have a new economic index, you need to give me a number, how I should interpret that number, and where it comes from. I don’t see that. GDP: measure if a country’s total economic output by adding up end product purchases. CPI: general price level by taking a weighted average of prices throughout the economy Big Mac index: how expensive goods are in a country relative to the US by reference to the local cost of a Big Mac, converted through the exchange rate. Here I expect something like “the economic output-weighted fraction of production taken over by AI”, but instead it’s just a list of AI adoption by industry. Why introduce an index and not headline with a definition of an index? Which audience prefers that?