I built an AI secretary for myself that handles these admin tasks, and it saves me ~12 hours/week. The interesting pattern: knowledge workers who delegate well to AI see outsized gains, while those who treat it as a fancy search engine get marginal improvements.
The EU study's 4% average makes sense when you factor in adoption friction, training gaps, and companies bolting AI onto broken workflows. The real productivity leap happens when you redesign processes around AI capabilities, not just layer them on top.
Nowadays an ai assist with a web search usually eliminates the search altogether and gives you a clear answer right away.
for example, "how much does a ford f-150 cost" will give you something ballpark in a second, compared to annoying "research" to find the answer shrouded in corporate obfuscation.
I found it a sad condemnation of how far the tech industry has fallen into enshittification and is failing to provide tools that are actually useful.
Or when asking an LLM for a comparison matrix or pros and cons between choices ... beware paid placements or sponsors. Bias could be a result of available training data (forgivable?) or due to paid prioritization (or de-prioritizing of competitors!)
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For those hearing this at work, better prepare an exit plan.
Case in point, this past week, I learned Deloitte only recently gave the approval in picking Gemini as their AI platform. Rollout hasn't even begun yet which you can imagine is going to take a while.
To say "AI is failing to deliver" because only 4% efficiency increase is a pre-mature conclusion.
And for the record I think they are absolutely right to be cautious, a mistake in my industry can be disastrous so a considered approach to integrating this stuff is absolutely warranted. Most established companies outside of tech really can’t have the “move fast break things” mindset.
Is putting Google Analytics onto your website and pulling a report 'big data analytics'...?
These are not the openclaw folks
Genuinely confused, I don't get it
It’s good money if you can live with yourself, and a mortgage and tuitions make it easy to ignore what you are becoming. I lived that for a few years and then jumped off that train.
Not even Russian invasion or collapse of automotive industry rattled them.