Tag: uses

  • How people use AI in 2026: TV, homework, the DMV

    How people use AI in 2026: TV, homework, the DMV

    Google looked at 15 million Gemini conversations and found people mostly asking about TV, homework, and government paperwork. Work is 13.5% of it, and almost none of that is trying to automate anything. Also: what the study leaves out, which is most of enterprise AI.

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  • Anthropic Cowork usage by business function - business process & operations leads at 33.4%

    Normie AI Usage: Figures & Findings

    Programmers are still the dominant users of UI and, thus, drive AI use cases. The much larger market are “normies,” people outside of the IT department who are doing “knowledge work” and other tasks in organizations. I asked the AI to pull together a list of what those activities are and the momentum around them.…

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  • How NatWest is using AI

    The NatWest CIO goes over how they’re using AI with some use cases. Some: “Today at NatWest, over 40% of all code is either AI-generated or AI-assisted.” AI use: “If you’re a relationship manager, if you’re a branch manager, or you’re sitting as a teller in the branch, whatever that role is, you’ve got better…

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  • “a staggering 3,611 active or planned use cases for AI across the federal government”

    The office of management and budget (OMB) disclosed a staggering 3,611 active or planned use cases for AI across the federal government. The list has balloonedby 70% from the one published in the final year of the Biden administration, and includes many disturbing-seeming plans to hand over sensitive governmental functions to AI. Yes, but: While…

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  • you can’t measure productivity

    The [Wells Fargo] CEO named auditing, testing, legal, contracts, patent filings, pitchbooks in investment banking and credit memos as a handful of areas across the company executives see room for AI to improve processes. “How much of that actually results in pure margin or return expansion is to be seen.” Scharf said, since competitors will…

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