Whether and to what extent AI can be monetized is an open question. But there's no question that LLMs are already seeing extensive use in everyday office work and already making large improvements to productivity.
> But there's no question that LLMs are already seeing extensive use in everyday office work and already making large improvements to productivity.
Are you referencing something specific here, or is there something you can link to? To be honest the only significant 'disruption' I've seen for LLMs so far has been cheating on homework assignments. I'd be happy to read something if you have it.
It’s purely anecdotal on my part but I have an ever increasing proportion of nontechnical acquaintances telling me how they discovered they can use ChatGPT to save large amounts of time drafting emails, writing reports, etc. (something which is a major part of work duties for many average office workers).
I and many others are questioning it. Please provide some proof. I've only seen some lazy programmers get boilerplate generated quicker, and some kids cheating on homework. I actually saw executives make use of ChatGPT's text summarization capabilities... until one of them made the critical mistake to fully trust it and flunked an important contract because ChatGPT overlooked something that would be super obvious to a human.
So again, let's see some proof of this extensive use and large improvements to productivity.
The article suggests the contrary: 4.8% use in US companies, down from 5.4%. (I would wish I would have gotten these numbers, but for a tech company founded in 2015 these are not remarkable).
Most of the other 95% of companies that say they aren’t using AI to produce goods or services will still have many employees who’re using LLM services for help drafting emails, documents, reports, etc.
