{
  "title": "AI business in the 2023 report",
  "report_year": 2023,
  "period": "Historical snapshot: October 2023. Dates and populations are specified per row.",
  "methodology": "The writing results concern specific assigned tasks and rated outputs. The funding figure removes generative AI from an aggregate comparison. Neither is a measured economy-wide productivity or investment effect.",
  "source_deck": "https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/156WpBF_rGvf4Ecg19oM1fyR51g4FAmHV3Zs0WLukrLQ/edit",
  "web_edition_date": "2026-10-10",
  "rows": [
    {
      "measure": "Writing task completion time",
      "value": "40% less time",
      "definition": "ChatGPT-assisted participants versus the control group in the professional-writing study.",
      "printed_slide": 91,
      "pdf_page": 91,
      "source_url": "https://www.stateof.ai/State-of-AI-Report-2023.pdf#page=91"
    },
    {
      "measure": "Writing output quality",
      "value": "18% better",
      "definition": "Rated output quality in the same study; not a company-wide productivity measure.",
      "printed_slide": 91,
      "pdf_page": 91,
      "source_url": "https://www.stateof.ai/State-of-AI-Report-2023.pdf#page=91"
    },
    {
      "measure": "AI investment excluding generative AI",
      "value": "40% decline",
      "definition": "Report’s counterfactual comparison for H1 2023 against H1 2022; not the actual overall AI funding change.",
      "printed_slide": 109,
      "pdf_page": 109,
      "source_url": "https://www.stateof.ai/State-of-AI-Report-2023.pdf#page=109"
    }
  ]
}