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Benedict Evans

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The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

And then it's monthly active users.

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

And on social, people said, well, hang on, if you're using Instagram once a month, you're not using it.

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

It's daily active users or nothing.

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

And weekly active users, we don't like either.

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

Now OpenAI is doing weekly active users.

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

And Sam Altman was a social media startup founder.

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

He knows this.

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

It's a bullshit number.

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

You look at survey data, and I did this slide in the last presentation I did of like five different surveys from the US from late last year, earlier this year, and it's all roughly the same.

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

It's like something around 10%, give or take 3% or 4% of people, depending on the survey, are using this, say they're using this every day.

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

Another sort of 15% to 20% of people say they're using it every week.

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

And then there's, say you've got like, say 10% of people using it every day, say 15 or 20% of people using it every week.

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

Another 20 or 30% of people who say I use it every month or two.

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

And another 20 or 30% of people who say, yeah, I had a look, I didn't get it.

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

And then you have this survey where people say 70% of people are using AI.

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

And I'm like, wait, what do you mean?

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

There's a whole other rabbit hole, which is, you know, people say, well, did you use Snapchat's face filters?

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

Oh, so you're using AI.

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

What do we mean by AI?

The Knowledge Project
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

So which is, let's be specific.