OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at a company event in November 2023. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
43 percent of 18-29 year olds in the US have used Chat GPT, up from 33 percent last July.
Almost a third of young people have used Chat GPT for work tasks, up from twelve percent last summer.
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This is a machine translation of an article from our US colleagues at Business Insider. It was automatically translated and checked by a real editor.
Do you remember a year ago? When everyone was super excited and/or freaked out about Chat GPT and AI? And then how did everyone get over it and move on? Turns out that’s not exactly how it happened.
Or, more accurately, a lot of normal people still care a bit about AI and Chat GPT. But the young people? They’re really into it.
That is the conclusion that can be drawn from a new one Pew survey can pull that says that overall Chat GPT usage has continued to increase – but above all with Generation Z.
The latest Pew survey, conducted last month, shows that 43 percent of Americans ages 18 to 29 say they have used Chat GPT, up from 33 percent in July last year. But only 23 percent of adults say they have used the chatbot.
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Percentage of US adults who say they have used Chat GPT. Pew
WELL. But the youngsters are probably just playing around with Chat GPT, right? Because Chat GPT can be a fun party trick, but it also “hallucinates”. So you couldn’t use it on a real job. Or?
Turns out the teens are using it for actual jobs (or at least they say they are). Nearly a third of young people say they have used Chat GPT “for tasks at work,” up from just twelve percent last summer.
Percentage of US adults who say they have used Chat GPT. Pew
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So you’re free to draw any conclusion you like: an obvious one would be that young people are more willing to embrace new technologies, which shouldn’t surprise anyone who’s ever been a young person.
Another might be that the indicators some of us use to track general interest in something – such as the Web visits to the Chat GPT website or the Number of VC deals for Chat GPT-like startups or even access to articles via Chat GPT – are not necessarily that useful.
Or, more specifically, that there may be a single data point that doesn’t tell the whole story.
For example, a visit to Google Trends can tell you two stories at once: Yes, interest in Chat GPT waned last spring and summer – and then it rose again, and now people are just as curious about Chat GPT as they were before Year.
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Interest in Google searches for the term “ChatGPT” was down for a while, but has started to rise again. Google Trends
Let’s see what the graphics will look like next fall.
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