"As of late 2024, nearly 40 percent of the U.S. population age 18-64 uses generative AI. 23 percent of employed respondents had used generative AI for work at least once in the previous week, and 9 percent used it every work day."

NBER

The Rapid Adoption of Generative AI

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating resear...

#AI #GenerativeAI #Survey

ChatGPT Hits 400 Million Weekly Users

Analytics India Magazine — India

India

#AI #ChatGPT

I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats

The Walrus

I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats | The Walrus

I once believed university was a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated

#AI #Philosophy #Ethics

How much energy will AI really consume? The good, the bad and the unknown https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00616-z "From a global perspective, AI’s impact on future electricity demand is actually projected to be relatively small. But data centres are concentrated in dense clusters, where they can have profound local impacts." #AI #Datacenters #Energy

Should we be moving data centers to space?

MIT Technology Review

Should we be moving data centers to space?

Building such facilities off Earth could have a lot of benefits. Early projects are underway.

#Datacenters #Space

Why Are People Wearing Masks in 2025?

Why Are People *Still* Wearing Masks?

A Mental Health Professional’s Perspective

#Health #Masks #COVID

Wyden to FTC: Stop digital “bait-and-switch” sales

Wyden to FTC: Stop digital “bait-and-switch” sales | Internet Archive Blogs

#Digital #Media #Ownership

The Digital Packrat Manifesto

404 Media

The Digital Packrat Manifesto

DRM and big tech's war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too.

#Digital #Media #Ownership

"In 2025, we find that the student use of AI has surged in the last year, with almost all students (92%) now using AI in some form, up from 66% in 2024, and some 88% having used GenAI for assessments, up from 53% in 2024. The main uses of GenAI are explaining concepts, summarising articles and suggesting research ideas, but a significant number of students – 18% – have included AI-generated text directly in their work."

Techmeme

Survey: 92% of UK undergrad students use AI to help them with their studies, up from 66% a year ago, raising questions about how universities assess their work

From Financial Times. View the full context on Techmeme.

#AI #UK #Universities

U.S. Workers Are More Worried Than Hopeful About Future AI Use in the Workplace About a third of workers say AI use will lead to fewer job opportunities for them in the long run; chatbots seen as more helpful for speeding up work than improving its quality

Pew Research Center

U.S. Workers Are More Worried Than Hopeful About Future AI Use in the Workplace

American workers have mixed feelings about how AI technologies, like ChatGPT, will affect jobs in the future.

#AI #Work #Survey

A Nobel laureate on the economics of artificial intelligence Daron Acemoglu has long studied technology-driven growth. He thinks we should slow down and make sure we’re using AI the right way.

MIT Technology Review

A Nobel laureate on the economics of artificial intelligence

Daron Acemoglu has long studied technology-driven growth. He thinks we should slow down and make sure we’re using AI the right way.

"It’s going to impact a bunch of office jobs that are about data summary, visual matching, pattern recognition, etc. And those are essentially about 5% of the economy." #AI #Economics

Four things to know about China’s new AI rules in 2024 From drafting an AI law to zooming in on copyright and safety reviews, experts say these are Chinese AI regulators’ priorities in 2024

MIT Technology Review

Four things to know about China’s new AI rules in 2024

From drafting an AI law to zooming in on copyright and safety reviews, experts say these are Chinese AI regulators’ priorities in 2024

#China #AI #Regulation

OpenAI Researchers Find That Even the Best AI Is "Unable To Solve the Majority" of Coding Problems

Futurism

OpenAI Researchers Find That Even the Best AI Is "Unable To Solve the Majority" of Coding Problems

OpenAI researchers have admitted that even the most advanced AI models can't really solve the coding problems put in front of them.

"The models weren't allowed to access the internet, meaning they couldn't just crib similar answers that'd been posted online." #AI #Programming #Research

History of barcodes in the Music Industry https://www.thatericalper.com/2020/03/24/history-of-barcodes-in-the-music-industry/ #Barcodes #Music

Is AI really thinking and reasoning — or just pretending to?

Vox

Is AI really thinking and reasoning — or just pretending to?

The best answer — AI has “jagged intelligence” — lies in between hype and skepticism.

#AI #Reasoning

Crackdown on Power-Guzzling Data Centers May Soon Come Online in California

Crackdown on Power-Guzzling Data Centers May Soon Come Online in California – The Markup

A spate of new bills in California and other states would protect consumers from electricity rate hikes that subsidize data centers

"California residents now pay the highest price for electricity in the continental U.S., state analysts reported last month. Costs have been driven in part by levies to prevent and insure against wildfires, but the analysts anticipate a less conspicuous source of pressure on power bills going forward: growing electricity demand from data centers." #Datacenters #Electricity

What’s driving electricity demand? It isn’t just AI and data centers.

MIT Technology Review

What’s driving electricity demand? It isn’t just AI and data centers.

Three things to know about electricity in 2025.

"Much of the increase comes from China, India, and Southeast Asia. Air-conditioning, electric vehicles, and factories all play a role. And of course, we can’t entirely discount the data centers." #Energy #Electricity #Growth #Datacenters

AI and Copyright: Expanding Copyright Hurts Everyone—Here’s What to Do Instead

Electronic Frontier Foundation

AI and Copyright: Expanding Copyright Hurts Everyone—Here’s What to Do Instead

You shouldn't need a permission slip to read a webpage–whether you do it with your own eyes, or use software to help. AI is a category of ge...

#AI #Copyright

Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip carves new path for quantum computing

Source

Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip carves new path for quantum computing - Source

Majorana 1, the first quantum chip powered by a new Topological Core architecture

#QuantumComputing

93% of Gen Zers use AI at work

Yahoo Tech

93% of Gen Zers use AI at work — and it's giving them a huge advantage

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em: How Gen Z is using AI to get ahead at work.

#AI #GenZ