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As the use of artificial intelligence soars, Google, the developer of the Gemini AI platform, has announced an initiative to examine how its products are being used.
Google asserted, “We must work together as a society to positively shape how AI impacts our lives, work, and economy. For this collaboration to be effective, it is critical that we fully understand how AI is being adopted and used in the economy. Society needs empirical insights and evidence-based research to inform decisions, initiatives, and actions.”
The company said it is “launching the first iteration of AI & Economy ATLAS (Activity, Task, Landscape, and Adoption Study), an ongoing large-scale, anonymized study of how people use Google’s AI products and tools.”
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The tech giant has shown that it uses interactions with AI for analytics.
“ATLAS’ first dataset (v1.0) is built from 15 million anonymized human-AI interactions across Gemini apps, AI modes, and Gemini APIs, which are collectively used by more than 1 billion people every month. ATLAS v1.0 insights span more than 150 countries, 140 languages, 800 professions, and 4,000 “ATLAS is the most comprehensive information yet about the real human condition, powered by AI at scale,” Google noted.
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A lengthy report on the analysis states in part: “We observe that most conversational AI use takes place in the home, with more than 86% of conversations taking place outside of formal work.”
“While AI adoption in the workplace is increasing in occupations covering more than 88% of U.S. employment, our findings indicate that adoption remains shallow and overwhelmingly collaborative in nature, with limited scope for end-to-end task automation,” the report’s executive summary states.
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“With English accounting for only about one-third of the world’s conversations, and the language distribution being nearly identical in work and non-work activities, there is no sign that users are systematically abandoning their native language for complex professional tasks,” the report’s abstract states.
