Note: "survey conducted in March"
Today's figures would be very different IMHO
58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it
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Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
IMO right now it's absurdly awful at searching the web. Which sort of makes sense because that's a truly difficult, nuanced thing to do. I often have much better responses re-running the same prompt on the non-web enabled GPT-4. The only use I've found for that so far is giving it a specific URL to use so I don't have to copy/paste some piece of documentation/etc.
phind.com is GPT 3.5 and 4.0 (selectable) with web browsing, and is 100x better than what ChatGPT is doing.
It's still bad for my use case though. My use case being: (1) figuring out rails magic, and (2) coming up with ways to twist the Rust borrow checker into submission.
Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's great but the usage limit is crazy to me. Sometimes I need to use lots of small messages, and run through them way too quickly
A trick is to combine a number of questions into one prompt. It can carry on multiple threads. You can also ask 3.5 first, and reserve 4 for the tough stuff.
That is what I do too.
I also never type the first prompt out to 4 in the actual chat window if I think there is going to be some back and forth. I write it in a separate file and really clarify my own thoughts before pasting it in and starting the dialog.
If using 4 correctly I think your head should be swimming with new information before you hit the limit for most tasks.
Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
In my experience it's getting traction everywhere. In the last few months I've spoken to a lawyer, a builder, a marketer, a graphic designer, and several taxi drivers, all who were using it themselves. The lawyer even said they used it at work. I asked them if their firm had any rules around what they could put into it, and they said no.
>The lawyer even said they used it at work. I asked them if their firm had any rules around what they could put into it, and they said no. That sounds like your lawyer friend might get sued soon!
They'll have a lot of other lawyers for company, then. They're all doing it right now.
Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
It definitely sounds impressive, yeah. Does anyone have data on products with similar growth trajectories? I'm thinking of Google, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and more faddy trends like Pokemon Go. Unlike some of those, ChatGPT seems like it has real staying power. I'd love to see their retention numbers.
https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/29174.jpeg Comes to mind
As far as I can tell, all of these are signups, some even paid signups except for chatgpt.
Moreover, chatgpt is a service offered by - while far from a household name - an established player. OpenAI was founded in 2015. They got their 1 million users in 2022, after 7 years, not 5 days.
And lastly, there’s over a decade between chatgpt and the newest player on that list
Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it
#66I’d say 0.1% have used it for something useful. Most people are just trying to find out if it has political biases or not. Usually this is followed by claims that it is simultaneously useless and will take over the world.
To the downvoters, this is 8 million people using ChatGPT in a very effective way. It is very useful. My suggestion is many people have not yet discovered it’s true value.
Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it
#67Never underestimate the power of a marketing campaign based on fud. Always works.
Re: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT; 14% have tried it
#68The original headline says "but few have tried it," but reaching over 1/10 of the population as actual users in under 6 months seems crazy impressive right? And also, that a quarter of the people who have heard of your product have also used it? I would say both of these numbers are really impressive, not just the first one.
I wonder if 'ChatGPT' is being used as a generic noun by a lot of those surveyed, I can possibly stretch my belief to believing 14% of people have tried some form of conversational AI, including bing, bard, and random chatbots, but for it to be specifically ChatGPT seems high.