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AI adoption rate is declining among large companies — US Census Bureau claims fewer businesses are using AI tools (www.tomshardware.com)
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A new survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau and reported on by Apolloseems to show that large companies may be tapping the brakes on AI. Large companies (defined as having more than 250 employees) have reduced their AI usage, according to the data (click to expand the Tweet below). The slowdown started in June, when it was at roughly 13.5%, slipping to about 12% at the end of August. Most other lines, representing companies with fewer employees, are also at a decline, with some still increasing.

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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At one point I tried to use a local model to generate something for me. It was full of errors, but after some searching online to look for a library or existing examples I found a github repo that was almost an exact copy of what it generated. The comments were the same, and the code was mostly the same, except this version wasn't fucked up.

It turns out text prediction isn't that great at understanding the logic of code. It's only good at copying existing code, but it doesn't understand why it works, so the predictive model fucks things up when it takes the less likely result. Maybe if you turn the temperature to only give the highest prediction it wouldn't be horrible, but you might as well just search online and copy the code that it's going to generate anyway.

[–] 7toed@midwest.social 2 points 10 hours ago

But.. how else do we sell our tool as a super intelligent sentient do-it-all?