Daemon, a lesser deity or guiding spirit, a "provider of fortunes or destinies".

Daemon, a computer program that runs as a background process, rather than being under the direct control of an interactive user.

Context

"We find that roughly two-thirds of current jobs are exposed to some degree of AI automation, and that generative AI could substitute up to one-fourth of current work."
- The Potentially Large Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Economic Growth, 26 Mar 2023

"80% of the U.S. workforce could have at least 10% of their work tasks affected by the introduction of LLMs, while approximately 19% of workers may see at least 50% of their tasks impacted."

"About 15% of all worker tasks in the US could be completed significantly faster at the same level of quality. When incorporating software and tooling built on top of LLMs, this share increases to between 47 and 56% of all tasks"
- GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models, 17 Mar 2023

Separate studies of both writers and programmers find 50% increases in productivity with AI, and higher performance and satisfaction. Salespeople with AI assistance doubled customer purchases & were 2.33 times as successful in solving questions that required creativity.
- Quantifying GitHub Copilot’s impact on developer productivity and happiness, 7 Sept 2022
- Experimental Evidence on the Productivity Effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence, 2 March 2023
- When and How Artificial Intelligence Augments Employee Creativity, 28 March 2023

For reference, the productivity gains of adding steam power in the mid-1800s was approximately 25% for a small factory.
- Steam Power, Establishment Size, and Labor Productivity Growth in Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing, Jan 2006