Our first Google Econ x AI paper. 15 milion Gemini interactions mapped to over 800 occupations, 4000 tasks, 300 household activities (!), 150 countries and 140 languages. New: hierarchical clustering tool, expertise and task types, mapping to American Time Use activities.

Very nice article co-authored by one of my former students, Mihai Codreanu, discovering how much of many documents eg press releases, job postings, have been written using LLMs (10-20% depending on type of document but it might have stabilised in late 2024) www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

The widespread adoption of large language model-assisted writing across society

This study explores AI-generated writing adoption across consumer complaints, corporate press releases, job postings, and international organization communications, revealing widespread use following ...

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The past 18 months have seen the most rapid change in human written communication ever By. September 2024, 18% of financial consumer complaints, 24% of press releases, 15% of job postings & 14% of UN press releases showed signs of LLM writing. And the method undercounts true use.