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Most people don’t think GenAI has improved their productivity

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Claims from this post (2)

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  1. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    Recommendation or value judgment

    “Incredibly damning new study on GenAI from the Upwork Research Institute, via Baldur Bjarnason (whose wonderful essay on LLMs and how they fool the gullible I discussed in April).”

    Our reading: The new Upwork Research Institute study on generative AI is incredibly damning.

    No horizon

    Qualifier: via Baldur Bjarnason

  2. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Observation

    “PS Microsoft Bing completely flubbed, 4/4, “people going yuck towards Generative AI”.”

    Our reading: Microsoft Bing completely flubbed the prompt "people going yuck towards Generative AI", 4 out of 4 results.

    No horizon Evidence as of

    Limitation: Only one search query was run, so an independent record could still exist that this search missed.

Held from this post (1)

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