> AI overviews have rolled out to ~3B users Does that really count as adoption, ...

onlyrealcuzzo · 2025-10-02T12:23:15 1759407795

Yes, if people are interacting with them, which they are.

HN seems to think everyone is like in the bubble here, which thinks AI is completely useless and wants nothing to do with it.

Half the world is interacting with it on a regular basis already.

Are we anywhere near AGI? Probably not.

Does it matter? Probably not.

Inference costs are dropping like a rock, and usage is continuing to skyrocket.

majewsky · 2025-10-03T23:59:38 1759535978

I am interacting with AI daily through Google products. YouTube is consistently giving me auto-translated titles that are either hilarious or wrong, and I desparately want to turn this bullshit off, but I can't, because it's not giving me an option.

That's the kind of adoption that should just be put up for adoption instead.

(And of course, the reason that I can tell that the auto-translated video titles are hilarious and/or wrong is because they are translating into a language that I speak from a language that I also speak, but apparently the YouTube app's dev team cannot fathom that a person might speak more than one language.)