ChatGPT Use Is Rising But a Surprising Number of Americans Still Haven’t Heard of It

A few third of American adults say they’ve used the generative AI software ChatGPT, whereas one in 5 say they’ve by no means heard of it, in accordance with new survey outcomes launched this week by the Pew Analysis Middle.The 34% who stated they’ve used the gen AI software from OpenAI embody 58% of adults beneath 30, the most important share amongst any age cohort. The share of ChatGPT customers drops with age: 41% of these 30 to 49, 25% of these 50 to 64 and 10% of these 65 and older. There’s additionally a correlation with schooling. Amongst adults with bachelor’s or post-graduate levels, about half reported utilizing the AI software. And simply 33% of these with some school and 18% of these with a highschool diploma or much less stated the identical. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis, the father or mother firm of CNET, in April filed a lawsuit towards OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in coaching and working its AI programs.) Using ChatGPT and different gen AI instruments has grown dramatically over simply the previous couple of years. ChatGPT surged to reputation on the finish of 2022 and has turn out to be a family identify within the few years since. The Pew survey bears that out. The share of American adults saying they used ChatGPT has virtually doubled since July 2023. However ChatGPT is not the one software of its variety. Different tech corporations have produced their very own giant language fashions, together with Google’s Gemini and Meta’s Llama.The Pew survey, from a panel of 5,123 adults from Feb. 24 to March 2, exhibits how individuals have come to make use of these instruments, which might carry out varied duties from writing paperwork to offering solutions just like search outcomes (albeit perhaps not fairly as correct). 28% of employed adults stated they used AI instruments at work, 26% stated they used it to study one thing new, and 22% stated they used it for leisure.Different current Pew outcomes discovered many American staff had doubts about utilizing AI of their jobs, and lots of had been apprehensive concerning the results it might have. Different analysis has discovered that whilst AI has turn out to be more and more widespread within the office, it isn’t with out social prices, as colleagues and managers might choose these who admit to utilizing AI. After all, not everyone seems to be utilizing these instruments. The Pew outcomes discovered 20% of adults have heard nothing about ChatGPT. That determine is highest amongst these over the age of 65 at 33% or with a highschool diploma or much less at 34%.The Pew survey outcomes match up with a separate examine launched this week by Menlo Ventures, which surveyed greater than 5,000 US adults about AI use. That examine discovered 61% of respondents stated they’d used AI previously six months, and 19% work together with AI every day. Its outcomes discovered that whereas Gen Z had the most important share of AI customers amongst any era at 76%, it was millennials who had been extra doubtless to make use of AI every day at 24%, in comparison with Gen Z at 21%. The Menlo Ventures examine checked out the preferred AI instruments and located ChatGPT is the “default software” of 28% of AI customers, adopted by Gemini at 23%.