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State of AI Report 2025
- cs702 1y agoThis 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 1y agoWorth 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 1y agoI 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 1y agoAnd 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 1y agoThe 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 1y agoOr googling something that shows an AI overview?
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- trenchpilgrim 1y agoI mean, does a Google search count as "using AI"?
- maffyoo 1y agojust 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 1y 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 1y agohttps://x.com/nathanbenaich/status/1947943376789143848?s=46 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.
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- noosphr 1y agoIn my circles it is obviously 100%.
- Ekaros 1y agoOkay 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 1y agoda hype is real
- blibble 1y ago> Produced by AI investor I'll pass good to know on the front page though, thanks
- iLoveOncall 1y agoYeah, even without taking that into account, the bias is obvious and extreme.
- scyzoryk_xyz 1y agoThey bought a cool url gotta give em that. looking up stateof.lol
- username223 1y agoNathan Benaich, who hasn't updated his profile in awhile: https://www.twitter.com/nathanbenaich https://www.twitter.com/nathanbenaich . Probably not helpful.
- signatoremo 1y agoDid 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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43013431
- ffsm8 1y agoThe 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?
- signatoremo 1y agoHuh? The authors of Blackbalze report are obviously bias since HDD is their business. That doesn’t make their reports less worth reading. Nathan Benaich has PhD in Computer and Mphil in Biology from Cambridge, and majored Biology from Oxford. He is more than qualified to discuss tech topics, a lot more than many pieces of content here on HN. Not reading him because he is an investor? Give me a break
- zkmon 1y agoQuite 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 1y agoOpening with is the most widely read and trusted analysis of key developments in AI. Automatic and instant reject.
- nextworddev 1y agoMeta 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 1y agoWhen one's job is potentially on the line one becomes a Luddite rather quickly.
- GolfPopper 1y agoButlerian, surely.
- CaptainOfCoit 1y agoWhat 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.
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- comestrelas 1y agoThe state of AI is healing online discourse!
- noosphr 1y agoThat's my most downvoted and flagged post. Some people really don't like Ai even when it's useful.
- CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
- oxqbldpxo 1y agoThe state of Ai: perplexity replaced google.
- nextworddev 1y agoAnecdotally perplexity scaled back their plans to sell ads, because no one was interested in..
- Zambyte 1y agoInteresting, this is the first I'm hearing of that. It's too little too late for me though. I was paying for Perplexity Pro and Kagi Ultimate at the same time for a few months to decide which I liked more. Perplexity was often able to get me answers that I wanted faster than Kagi could, but in the cases where it would run in circles around a false result, it seemed like it would more than make up for the time saved on other queries. The CEO talking about wanting to roll out advertisements was one of the final nails in the coffin for me. I have exactly zero interest or patience for being subjected to advertisements on a service that I'm paying for.
- mNovak 1y agoA 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 1y agoI 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 1y agoAnd 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 1y agoWe are reading this report in the best tech circles of IIT Mumbai. E = MC2+ AI
- dingnuts 1y ago> E = MC2+ AI this is so cringy
- jeetsundareep 1y agoOn the contrary; it is prominent to leverage the synergy of ontological orthogonalities to maximize a diverse approach.
- sponnath 1y agoThis is peak pseudo-intellectualism.
- rester324 1y agoThis is even cringier
- jeetsundareep 1y ago[dead]
- this_steve_j 1y agoI like the cut of this jibe.
- bgwalter 1y agoIt does hold for AI==0. I like it!
- parliament32 1y agoContext: https://old.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/comments/13tbfqm/what/ https://old.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/comments/13tbfqm/w...
- dgfitz 1y agoThe headline is flawed, nothing that exists today is relatively close to “AI” unfortunately.
- Zambyte 1y agoThe AI effect[0] strikes again. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
- dgfitz 1y agoYou’re right. Nothing resembling ”I” exists when shat out from an LLM.
- Zambyte 1y agoThe AI effect[0] strikes again. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
- dgfitz 1y ago[flagged]
- dang 1y agoCould you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly, and we've asked you repeatedly to stop. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
- spaceman_2020 1y agoThe 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 1y agoI 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 1y ago3 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 1y agoAs if artists and writers don't deliberately plagiarize works and combine them to make something new.
- spaceman_2020 1y agoBeen a user 3 years ago. I really haven't seen an improvement. Rather, the prose quality is now becoming even more clearly AI
- AznHisoka 1y agohttps://x.com/nathanbenaich/status/1947943376789143848?s=46 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.