Most people still use AI only for gimmicks, and the author says it is still very early
RachelVT42 · x · 2026-07-23
The author argues that people still underestimate how early the AI era is.
In their view, most people barely use AI beyond gimmicky cases, and many have not used these tools at all. The quoted comment adds that even after reading the transcript, the main takeaway is that progress is still early and meaningful gains should continue with each model update over the next two years.
Related event: Andrej Karpathy: AI Adoption Among the General Public Remains Extremely Low(3 posts)→
More from AGI Musings
- US senator slams AI industry for proposing 50-death threshold for 'catastrophic incident' — peterwildeford · 2026-10-27
- Replit CEO Says AI Makes All Software De Facto Open Source; Aakash Gupta Asks What Moats Remain — aakashgupta · 2026-10-27
- Understanding the AI consciousness debate: which theory of mind is behind it — msharmas · 2026-10-27
- Functionalism: if consciousness is just what the brain computes, silicon can run it too — msharmas · 2026-10-27
- iPhone case with 85,000 reviews in days: everything fake in the age of abundance — tekbog · 2026-10-27
- Whether AI can be conscious depends on your definition: five frameworks for thinking about it — msharmas · 2026-10-27