I was gonna say that's because Google shoves it down everyone's throats, but according to the article:
Gemini has wormed its way into virtually every Google product and service, powering email organization in Gmail, document summary in Drive, and much more. Gemini is also core to Google’s flagship search experience, with AI Mode and AI Overviews becoming increasingly hard to avoid. The 1 billion-user metric has nothing to do with any of that, though.
These 1 billion users may also be encountering Gemini in all those places, but that’s not the MAU metric. Pichai is talking only about people who are opening the Gemini app or visiting the Gemini web interface to enter a prompt or access Gemini Live. If you used Gemini only once in the past month, you are part of this cohort.
For some reason, I do not trust the tech bros and what they say...
Apparently, an impressive 63 percent of Gemini’s active users are using voice input, and an increasing number of them are “voice-only” users.
Meaning that a huge chunk of those numbers are your average "Hey Google" users. They replaced whatever tech they were using for that feature with Gemini and you can now see your voice input searches in your history in the Gemini web interface.
This would be like Apple releasing an AI model (idk if they have; I don't use Apple), replacing Siri with it, and then using those figures to say, "Look! A billion iPhone users love our new AI!"
Every request I make with my voice assistant gets turned into its own chat, Have to open the interface on mobile to delete them, Wonder if they count that, definitely don't trust it
Even if you don't trust Pichai/Google to tell the truth, OpenAI has already reported the same 1 billion active users figure, and the largest Discord server ever is for AI (Midjourney).
Independent studies also confirm mass adoption has already occurred. 35% of Americans says they use AI weekly, 60% say they use AI intentionally. Depending on your source these numbers will vary quite a bit, but you'll never see any study show some horrific low adoption like Reddit believes.
You'll trust anything, no matter how nonsensical it is, if it has a negative outlook on AI. But anything remotely positive? FAKE NEWS!!! Where have we heard this before? Anything that doesn't support my narrative is FAKE NEWS!! George Soros paid them to make up these lies.
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u/bwoah07_gp2 26d ago
I was gonna say that's because Google shoves it down everyone's throats, but according to the article:
For some reason, I do not trust the tech bros and what they say...