For most people, AI isn’t a tool they use every day—in last week’s poll, most people hadn’t used AI other than maybe running some quick experiments to get a sense of what all was being discussed. However, one-third of voters do use it occasionally, and about 15% even use AI on a daily basis.
What do they do with it? Surprisingly, gaming is by far the least common answer, despite being the first of the current branches of AI to be deployed at scale – Nvidia launched the GeForce 20 series with DLSS in 2019 and has since Improvements have been ongoing ever since.
Chatbots top the list—people use ChatGPT and other tools to get answers quickly, write and debug code, type emails, and more.
The second largest use case is image generation – for example, modern AI tools can create custom wallpapers for free. Related to this are tools that can enlarge and/or deblur images and videos.
Translation, transcription, and text-to-speech are other common uses of AI, although the term is so broad and there are so many new tools that the “other” category actually ends up in third place.
That’s why the news is full of “AI this, AI that.” Many companies, old and new, are experimenting with new uses for the technology. With the price of computing power continuing to drop and new developments in computer science, it seems that AI is not going away this time (although another AI winter is always a possibility).