The Anthropic Economic Index: Understanding AI’s effects on the economy over time.

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• will_a113@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The main findings from the Economic Index’s first paper are:

  • Today, usage is concentrated in software development and technical writing tasks. Over one-third of occupations (roughly 36%) see AI use in at least a quarter of their associated tasks, while approximately 4% of occupations use it across three-quarters of their associated tasks.
  • AI use leans more toward augmentation (57%), where AI collaborates with and enhances human capabilities, compared to automation (43%), where AI directly performs tasks.
  • AI use is more prevalent for tasks associated with mid-to-high wage occupations like computer programmers and data scientists, but is lower for both the lowest- and highest-paid roles. This likely reflects both the limits of current AI capabilities, as well as practical barriers to using the technology.

  Interesting, not really surprising, and nowhere near as entertaining as when Pornhub does it’s annual introspection.

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