Evans: Generative AI had four primary use cases in 2023
Benedict Evans · Looking for AI use-cases · Apr 1, 2024 · at 2:14
Independent technology analyst Benedict Evans categorizes the primary ways people adopted generative AI throughout 2023.
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“It seems to me that there were sort of four use cases. Use case one is coding. Secondly, brainstorming and suggesting ideas. Thirdly, and this is more like a corporate thing, knowledge management pointed at an internal corpus of thousands of documents or PDFs and synthesize an answer for me. And fourth, some people are using it as an alternative or a placement for Google. For some kinds of, certainly for some kinds of searches.”
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