I don't know how to precisely quantify the value I get, but Im happily paying $20/mo for OpenAI tools. I'll never again "read documentation" directly nor will I sift through useless SEO optimized bog-spam to learn about a new hot thing. Between these 2 activities, thats pretty much all I use the internet for in the first place and AI has become a core part of my life/work process. If this works out to be all AI is ever good for its still a win for me. I don't remember the last time I used the standard Google search for something.
The article highlights several intriguing points. Notably, OpenAI reports that 75% of its revenue comes primarily from consumers, rather than corporate subscriptions—a telling statistic.
Additionally, one-third of American employees now use AI for work at least once a week, with even higher adoption rates in certain roles. A recent study reveals that 78% of software engineers in the U.S. utilize AI weekly, up from 40% in 2023, while 75% of HR professionals do the same, an increase from 35%.
I was skeptical at first, still am somewhat. However, I've been using OpenAI's app and its new search engine feature I can't see myself going back to traditional search engines.
I use copilot with Claude for software development, I cannot see myself going back to traditional autocomplete.
However, I do not see how else AI will revolutionize anything else especially now that they've hit the limits of what is currently possible with the technology of our time.
a lawyer next door to your right is sitting and saying “I am now using AI for million things I had to do manually, however I do not see how AI will revolutionize anything else now that we’ve ‘hit the limits on what is currently possible’ - feel bad for software devs who will never get any benefits of this cool new tech…”
a college teacher next door to your left is saying… :)
It has growing influence in computational chemistry where heuristic approaches can give massive speedups. Mixing AI and theorem proofing together is going to be big.
Increasing use in customer service will be massive annoyance and great business success.
> Increasing use in customer service will be massive annoyance
I suspect that sometimes it will be a massive annoyance and sometimes it will be great.
I have been massively annoyed many times by conventional customer service, most of all when having to stay on the phone for a long time waiting for a human operator to answer a simple question. When such questions can be answered by an AI that responds immediately, I will be more than happy. And I will probably use customer service more; currently, I often hesitate to make phone calls to customer service because I don’t know how long the conversations will take.
Of course, there will also be times when the voice recognition fails or the bot can’t understand the problem. Those cases will indeed be massively annoying.
To quote William Gibson, ‘The future is already here—it’s just not evenly distributed.’ While AI is clearly making a big impact for you in software development, there are still many industries and areas of daily life where its full potential hasn’t been realized yet. For example, how much could it revolutionize how people handle taxes, navigate complex legal processes, or streamline personal and professional tasks? We’re seeing the early waves of change, but there’s so much room for growth in ways that might seem mundane but could make a huge difference for everyday users. Excited to hear your next update!
The AI to look at is Waymo's computer driven cars. They're here, they work, but Uber and Lyft aren't going away in the cities that Waymo drives in. The same goes for everything an LLM can do today. Nevermind the possibility of GPT-5, 6 or 7. The systemic effects of where they're at today are going to take a while to iron out.
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