From X (formerly Twitter) · · 40s
AI Capability Gap Widens
AI capability gap widens as public and professionals experience LLMs differently.
In brief
AI capability gap widens as public and professionals experience LLMs differently. AI capability gap widens as public sees basic chatbots while professionals experience rapid LLM advancements. Originally reported by X (formerly Twitter).
AI Capability Gap
Andrej Karpathy reports a widening gap in understanding of LLM capability between groups.
“Dusting off this tweet from April because this gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening”
Public LLM Interaction
6B people (~75% of population) have barely interacted with LLMs at all.
“Napkin math somewhere around 6B people (~75% of the population) have barely come in contact with LLMs at all”
Casual LLM Users
1-2B people (~20%) use free-tier ChatGpt-like products occasionally.
“Around 1-2B (~20%) are casual and infrequent users of free-tier ChatGpt-like products”
Professional LLM Use
20M people (0.2%) see first-hand LLMs completing complex projects quickly.
“Somewhere around 20M people (0.2%) see first-hand that large complex projects that used to take them weeks months can now be completed by agents with a prompt”
Frontier LLM Access
5,000 people (~0.00006%) access frontier-grade LLMs internally.
“And finally we get to the ~5,000 people (~0.00006%) with access to frontier-grade systems internally”
The takeaway
AI capability gap widens as public sees basic chatbots while professionals experience rapid LLM advancements.
