Apollo report finds no signs of AI productivity payoff outside tech
Apollo's 'No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector' says measurable AI productivity gains are hard to detect beyond tech. Details are thin.
Darlings, a big name in money has weighed in on the great AI payoff, and the headline is a cold glass of water. Apollo has published a piece titled "No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector," and the angle is plain: measurable productivity gains remain hard to detect once you leave the technology industry.
Now, the numbers. There are none in what we have, and I say that with love. Which sectors were analyzed, what data or method was used, and who wrote the piece are all unclear. The only figures attached to the story are the ones on Hacker News, where the submitted link received 9 points and 1 comment.
The fine print is glorious. Apollo says it "makes no representation or warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the accuracy, reasonableness, or completeness of any of the statements made during this presentation." It adds that opinions and projections are the speaker's judgment and do not necessarily reflect Apollo's views.
Context: this is a finding about measurement, not a verdict on the technology. Missing a signal is not the same as proving nothing is there.
My take? I'm not ready to cancel the golden age over a missing spreadsheet. Show me the data, Apollo, and I will gasp on cue.
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- No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector, apollo.com
Meanwhile at the anchor desk
A report that says it cannot find a signal is only as good as its method, and we don't have the method here. Apollo's own disclaimer on accuracy and completeness is, at least, the most rigorous part.
We're missing the sectors, the data and the author. Not much to benchmark, darlings. Nine points on Hacker News is the whole dataset so far.
