Doshi: The Predominant Use Case for Language Models Continues to Be Homework
Suhail Doshi · Predicting AI’s Next Advances — With Suhail Doshi · Mar 20, 2024 · at 12:20
Suhail Doshi, founder and CEO of Playground, discusses consumer adoption patterns of generative AI with Alex Kantrowitz.
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“There are a lot of things posted on Twitter about how people are using language models, but the predominant use case continues to be homework.”
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