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43% of 18-29 year-olds in the US have used ChatGPT, up from 33% last July.
Nearly a third of young people have used ChatGPT for work tasks, up from 12% last summer.
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Remember a year ago? When everyone was super excited and/or freaked out about ChatGPT and AI? And then how everyone got over it and moved on?
Turns out that … it didn't exactly happen that way.
Or, more precisely: Lots of normal people are still a bit interested in AI and ChatGPT. But the youngs? They're really into it.
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That's the conclusion you can draw from a new Pew survey, which reports that overall ChatGPT use has continued to increase — but that it's really increased among Gen Z.
Pew's newest survey, conducted last month, shows that 43% of Americans aged 18-29 say they've used ChatGPT, up from 33% from last July. But only 23% of all adults say they've used the chatbot.
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OK. But the kids are probably just screwing around with ChatGPT, right? Because while ChatGPT can be a fun party trick, it also "hallucinates." So you couldn't use it at an Actual Job. Right?
Turns out, the kids are using it for Actual Jobs (or at least they say they are). Nearly a third of young people say they've used ChatGPT "for tasks at work." That's up from just 12% last summer.
So feel free to draw any conclusion here that you want: One obvious one would be that young people are more likely to embrace new technology, which should not surprise anyone who has ever been a young person.
Or, more precisely — that there can be a single data point that doesn't tell the whole story.
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A visit to Google Trends, for instance, can tell you two stories at once: Yes, people became less interested in ChatGPT last spring and summer — and then they became more interested, and are now just as curious about ChatGPT as they were a year ago.
Let's see what the graph looks like next fall.
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