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I wrote the article, Ed said that in the linked blog post: “There Is No Real AI Adoption, Nor Is There Any Significant Revenue - As I wrote earlier in the year, there is really no significant adoption of generative AI services or products.”

There is a pretty clear path to profitability, or at least much lower losses. A lot more phones, tablets, computers, etc now have GPUs or other hardware optimized for running small LLMs/SLMs, and both the large and small LLMs/SLMs are becoming more efficient. With both of those those happening, a lot of the current uses for AI will move to on-device processing (this is already a thing with Apple Intelligence and Gemini Nano), and the tasks that still need a cloud server will be more efficient and consume less power.

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meowgenau@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

a lot of the current uses for AI will move to on-device processing

How exactly will that make OpenAI and the likes more profitable?! That should be one of the scenarios that will make them less profitable.

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- corbin@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  If the models are more efficient, the tasks that still need a server will get the same result at a lower cost. OpenAI can also pivot to building more local models and license them to device makers, if it wants.
  
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voronaam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I agree that this was pure wording on Ed’s side. He meant to point at the lack of adoption for work/business purposes, but failed to articulate this distinction. He is talking about conversion to paid users and how Google cheated to make the adoption of Gemini by corporate users to looks higher than it is. He never meant to talk about the adoption by regular people on the free tier just doing random non-work-related things.

You were talking about a different adoption metric. You are both right, you are just talking about different kinds of adoption.

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- corbin@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I don’t think he is talking about specifically businesses, though, because he also Gemini replacing Google Assistant is something that only matters in consumer products (Assistant was never an enterprise product). It’s more like he’s moving the goalposts mid-statement.
  
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6nk06@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

on-device processing

Oh, when will I get my free phone to do this ?

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