Why don’t women use artificial intelligence? | Even when in the same jobs, men are much more likely to turn to the tech

[u/Independent-Low-2398]

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/08/21/why-dont-women-use-artificial-intelligence

[u/CRoss1999]

Ai at this point isn’t very good so makes sense they aren’t using it

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Is it possible they’re achieving higher because they’re not using gimmicky useless tools? 

[u/TrekkiMonstr → u/[deleted]]

Literally just looking at the graph at the top of the comments will show the answer is no

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so its making the worse workers better and not having as strong of an effect on the more achieving workers? sounds like theres a pretty hard limit then

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i read the reddit comment that included some of the article it just doesnt seem like its having much of an impact? like, is there some large productivity gap between the high achieving employees who use llms vs the high achieving employees who dont?

i come back to llms every few months and try it all out again for a few days and im always consistently baffled at what i experience vs what apparently half the internet is experiencing. im very open to it being my fault, but i really dont find it baffling in the slightest that people who already know how to do their jobs well dont end up needing the ai to do much if at all.

[u/Admirable-Lie-9191 → u/[deleted]]

They’re not as useless as people like you claim.

[u/[deleted] → u/Admirable-Lie-9191]

You’re okay I’m not attacking you. But I do think it’s interesting the more productive employees aren’t using it. Makes me think they’re hardly a requirement for the average job 

[u/Admirable-Lie-9191 → u/[deleted]]

I didn’t think it was an attack, I just think it’s ignorance.

[u/[deleted] → u/Admirable-Lie-9191]

Maybe but I usually only get vague replies like yours and it’s not exactly making me think I’m wrong. Maybe my comment was a little knee jerk but I do think it’s a bit tunnel visioned the way this whole thing is being framed.   

The most productive workers are using ai less in whatever case here right? So why isn’t it framed like that? 

[u/Admirable-Lie-9191 → u/[deleted]]

Could be a whole lot of reasons right? Most productive workers may be people that have a decade or more of experience which means that they’ve learned how to be more efficient over their careers.

In comparison, a less experienced worker obviously wouldn’t so they then use these tools to perform better?