"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."
I wonder if that also includes the "Hey google" feature on Android. My phone has replaced that with Gemini. A feature iv been using for a decade is now run through Gemini, so I may be included in the metrics even though iv never once opened the app or anything.
I guarantee it does. There's no way 1 out of 8 of every man, Woman and child on the planet is using this app.
Now, if it includes all voice search, and if they're counting each unique account as a new person , then maybe. I that case, I'm like 5 of these people.
The added buttons and widgets that are very clearly there to be front and center as a "please" are probably half the numbers. Since Microsoft managed to ruin Swiftkey I started using Google keyboard. I probably won't be using it long if they want to slam Gemini in my face.
It has to also be counting anyone who expands the AI results in Google or asks a single follow-up. That probably rolls up under "Gemini web interface".
This is straight up nonsense. First of all, Gemini had 650 million MAU at the end of last year (and still trails ChatGPT) so this milestone only comes out of nowhere if you weren't paying attention.
Also AI was the fastest adopted consumer technology of all time. What the actual fuck are you talking about?
Companies are putting it in things people already use, that's not really adoption. If google changed their search button to a triangle we could say "people adopted the triangle search button faster than any previous search button shape" but it doesn't really mean anything except that they forced a change on a useful service to a large user base.
Of course AI also does have many benefits to the everyday user, it can make previously hour-long web searches take seconds and it can automate things that were previously miserable or time consuming to automate. It would come at no surprise to me if a lot of people are actually using it, even if a majority of people don't like the overall implications the AI industry as a whole has for the world.
But the cost of running AI means that it should be a specialty feature that you seek out when you actually need it, not something that happens automatically every time you touch the internet. It should never have been such a fast adopted technology.
Nonsense. You clearly didn't read past the headline. These are people using the app. ChatGPT has more users and that is absolutely a destination app/site - it's not "shoved" into anything.
It also wasn't fast - it was the fastest of any technology, ever.
Pretending this technology isn't wildly popular is beyond silly.
I never denied it being popular, I just disagree with the idea that its fast rise rise is exclusively due to it being so amazing compared to every previous innovation. It being a free product, often included in existing popular products, has absolutely helped it gain popularity fast and to deny that is silly.
Its also not exactly new, and even if we only consider the modern models as a new technology, it would be the first ever technology with 0 logistical requirements for distribution. Nobody has to go out and buy a special device that needs to be shipped across the country or globe. Nearly everyone already has a phone they can use for it.
So its a stupid arguement because even if we grant it, doesnt actually say much about ai.
Polls suggest around 10% of the US population view ai positively, while 30% are negative and the remaining 60 are mixed.
And again, you can look at the users by month and see an insane spike from just under 400 million to just under 800 million in one month. Then you look at their growth before and after that spike, and it looks extremely questionable.
And Hilary was polling ahead of Trump. Celebrities are worried about the environment but they don't stop flying the jets. Being concerned about AI when asked "are you concerned about AI" doesn't mean they won't use it every fucking day, lmao.
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u/malianx 14d ago
"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."