> Actual "regular people" use Facebook occasionally, shop at the grocery store, watch Sportsball on TV, and plan their kids' birthday parties or their next vacation. They're not sitting there augmenting their daily lives with ChatGPT.
I'm aware of the HN bias, but in this case, I'm talking regular, non-tech, sportsball or TikTok watching crowd. Just within my closest circles, one person is using ChatGPT for recipes, and they're proficient at cooking so I was surprised when they told me the results are almost always good enough, even with dietary restrictions in place (such as modifying recipes without exceeding nutrient limits). Another person used it for comparison shopping of kids entertainment supplies. Another actually posted a car sale ad and used gen-AI to swap out background to something representative (no comment on ethics of that). Another is evaluating it for use in their medical practice.
(And I'm excluding a hundred random uses I have for it, like e.g. making colorbooks for my kids when they have very specific requests, like "dancing air conditioners" or whatever.)
Without data, we're trading anecdotes. Your circle is in the bubble, mine isn't. This user[1] shared a Pew survey, which looks like the best we're going to get. The survey asked what % of people ever used ChatGPT, which I'd interpret as "at least one time ever" and the number is less than 1 in 4. I'd love to see actual data on what percentage of people use it at least once daily, which is the bar I'd accept for "integrated with their daily lives."
Fair enough. My circle may be in a bubble, and come to think of it, selection bias is a factor - I can think of all the people close to me who use it, but there's more equivalently close friends and relatives who (as far as I know) don't. I do think the survey is giving quite a big results, given we're barely a year into the whole ChatGPT craze - but we can revisit this topic when more data becomes available. I'm sure it'll come up again :).
I'm aware of the HN bias, but in this case, I'm talking regular, non-tech, sportsball or TikTok watching crowd. Just within my closest circles, one person is using ChatGPT for recipes, and they're proficient at cooking so I was surprised when they told me the results are almost always good enough, even with dietary restrictions in place (such as modifying recipes without exceeding nutrient limits). Another person used it for comparison shopping of kids entertainment supplies. Another actually posted a car sale ad and used gen-AI to swap out background to something representative (no comment on ethics of that). Another is evaluating it for use in their medical practice.
(And I'm excluding a hundred random uses I have for it, like e.g. making colorbooks for my kids when they have very specific requests, like "dancing air conditioners" or whatever.)