More Americans Are Using ChatGPT, but a Surprising Number Say They Haven’t Heard of It

About a third of American adults say they used the generative AI tool CatWhile one in five says they have never heard of it, according to New survey results from Pew Research Center.

The 34% who say they used the OPENAI GEN AI tool include 58% of adults under the age of 30, the largest part of any age cohort. The share of chatgpt users decreases with age: 41% of these 30 to 49, 25% of these 50 to 64 and 10% of these 65 and over. There is also a correlation with education; Among adults holding a baccalaureate or a third cycle diploma, about half said it used the tool. Only 33% of those who have a college and 18% of those who have a secondary school diploma or less said the same thing. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis, CNET’s parent company in April, filed a complaint against Openai, alleging that it has violated Ziff Davis Copyrights in the training and exploitation of its AI systems.)

The use of chatgpt and other Gen AI tools has developed considerably in the past two years. Chatgpt increased in popularity at the end of 2022 and has become a familiar name in a few years since. The PEW survey supports it: the share of American adults saying that they have used Chatgpt have almost doubled since July 2023. But Chatgpt is not the only tool of the genre. Other technological companies have produced their own language models Gemini And meta- Lama.

The PEW survey, of a panel of 5,123 adults interviewed from February 24 to March 2, shows how people came to use these tools, which can perform various tasks, to write documents to provide similar responses to search results (although perhaps not as precise). 28% of adults employed said it for work at work, 26% said they used it to learn something new and 22% said they used it for entertainment.

Other recent Pew results have found that many American workers had doubts about the use of AI in their workAnd many were worried about the effect he would have. Other research has revealed that even if AI has become more and more common in the workplace, it is not without social costs, as colleagues and managers may judge those who admit the use of AI.

Of course, not everyone uses these tools. Pew’s results show that 20% of adults have heard nothing about chatgpt. This figure is the highest among those over 65 (33%) or with a secondary school or less diploma (34%).