AI Diffusion Gap Widening: Most Users Still in 'Chatbot Mode'
Multiple commentators note that ~6 billion people are using AI only as glorified search, dramatically underrepresenting its actual capabilities, while AI 2027 scenario tracking suggests superhuman coders arrive in 2028, not 2027.
What we know
An account on X agreed with Andrej Karpathy that the gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening — roughly 75% of the global population uses AI only for simple chatbot interactions. Another account on X retweeted an August 2026 update on the AI 2027 scenario, noting reality is tracking at 70–90% of predicted speed, pushing the superhuman coder milestone to 2028. Another account on X also RT'd Nous Research's release of Hermes Agent.
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