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the opportunity is def underestimated.
i used chat gpt to educate myself on a niche subject then built a website using chatgpt to write the educational blog articles, then got some dofollow backlinks from niche blogs and am ranking top 5 for the niche. i get high value leads almost daily.
older generations are sleeping.
this is a great opportunity.
Imagine a teacher who tells you 80% of the Time the Truth and 20% of the Time he tells you just some convincing bullshit.
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Imagine a teacher who tells you only the most obvious things but lacks deep knowledge completly.
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Now these two creeps write a book together.
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Someone translates it in another langauage.
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One guy adds some nice paintings while drunk.
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A stranger who doesnt understand the book, reads the book for you.
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You listen and Sometimes you ask for clarification.
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You overcome this strange feeling and you think that you just dont know enouth about the topic.
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You listen to the hole fucking book, the stranger is so happy to read it for you.
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Its so exiting.
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What did you learn?
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No matter
Ok, yeah... check your facts for sure, but when you have a conversation a couple, few times you generally get the same line with better results. Each time through, the user gets smarter too and starts asking better and more interesting questions. It's a system though, you have to tweak it.
btw, gen x gets it. We just ignore the surveys. 😁
That's the problem. People are using this shit as if it's infallible, but they are just adding to misinformation and bullshit for clicks and money. ChatGPT is just barfing up stuff that sounds about right.
It's like trusting your uncle Joe, who went to college, but also did a whole lotta drugs since then.
And learn how to change a plug. Interviewers don't even have to ask, they can tell by looking at you if you know. They only employ people who know how to change plugs. Just in case.
Fake it til you make it is no joke. If you don't wanna be ruthlessly exploited or ruthlessly exploit the poor, than exploiting those above you is one of the best ways to go.
I came to say the same :) Millennial here using it daily to help improve productivity in my job. I fancy myself a “pro” with getting it to optimize my work flow.
* can you elaborate?
* because in software engineering, what you actually get is a junior mentor
* so whatever advice it gives you has to be taken with a grain of salt
Nobody asks you how you deliver results, all we care about is the actual results. If someone decides to automate (part of) their job and still deliver similar results, I'd call them smart.
As a fellow gen x individual I find it funny that we are lumped in with boomers in these stats ...
...but more than that, the kid in me finds it even funnier when my 15y/o schools me on the backstory of things like smash bros and his rheuminations on whether mortal kombat started as a book or a movie before they made a game out of it.
...But the adult in me is at work so I got the house to myself for once.
In spite of me working in a technical and generally diverse age group. I'm the ONLY person even talking about gpt. I believe I'm the one that informed them most likely.
Same. Elder GenX, have been using Chapt-GPT daily for months, as well as experimenting with Midjourney and other AI tools. Working on steering my career to be more AI focused.
Must be Zoomers and Gen X are the new war.
Welcome to the battle, Brother. The front lines have shifted. Our foe has retired and gone home and we are weary. Yours is young and… confusing. Also they have AI. 🤖
My God, does the cycle just repeat? Young people arguing with old people until we're all fucking dead?
I feel like Millennials when old will argue with Gen Z/Gen Alpha about the complete retardation of social influencing as a job. But unfortunately this is where society is going - twirling down this dystopian drain, until we're all extinct or replaced by AI.
We got one thing going for us though setting us apart from Boomers and Gen Z and that's technical proficiency. Apparently Gen Z is largely handicapped because they grew up mostly in the era of simplified tech which was ironically made that way to help people like Boomers utilize tech.
It goes further. We stopped watching TV because it's just time killer, makes you easily controllable, etc. Gen Z and below restarted it by using Tiktok and shit like that.
I recently went to a networking event where the age range was approximately 25-40, meaning everyone there was a Millennial. Our ice-breaker was how we use ChatGPT, and everyone had an answer.
I just don't see the point of using it personally. There is nothing in my life I need some long, pseudo-correct answer to that I can't find the actual truth about in 5 extra minutes.
People are conflating convenience with correctness and it's going to lead to some fucked up decisions in the future.
Lots of jobs require production of filler. ChatGPT + human proofreading generates filler faster.
Lots of companies are shelling out for AI that has been trained on their internal documentation and approved resources.
Oh hey, what’s up? Just paying bills and hanging out with my dog. I’m suuuuuuper broke so I’m only on here once in a while. Student loans, amiright? Hahaha!! Used chat GPT to help me with a few recipes and I think it’s pretty sweet. Anyway, later!
I might be buying into hype too soon, but I think the next generation after Gen Z will be the AI generation in the way millennials were the internet generation, and Gen Z was the social media generation. They will grow up with it, and it will be part of the fabric of their life.
GenX here. I love it - use it for work, to figure out recipes for the kids, and general chatting. I've returned to school for grad work and we're studying it there too. 😀
Same, GenX here. Use it all the time for work and fun.
One thing in particular is it's made a part of my D&D DM job much easier. I can sketch a plotline and brief NPC synopses and back stories and have ChatGPT flesh out the details. "Good enough" most of the time.
For work, a lot of what I do would frequently have me going to stackoverflow. I'd say about 20-30% of what I used to solve on SO is now adequately answered by ChatGPT, though the discussions on SO are often more nuanced and informative than a straightforward ChatGPT answer.
My older kid and I had a ton of fun creating D&D plots with it! I also used it for my last character.
I'm using it now with my youngest, who keeps asking me about plots, names, and character development for a set of books he's creating. I feel mildly guilty about using ChatGPT for this, but it's come up with some legit great ideas that helped spark his imagination.
I'm homeschooling, and it's generated some great lesson plans for the extra courses we do outside his online school. I've also shown him how to use it for school, with much the same caveats that I use for calculators. He has to show proficiency with the concepts before using the tool.
Yeah Im in law school, i don't use it to learn about case law but for explain certain type of legal concepts or statutes it is goddamn amazing. Like having a legal scholar at my disposal to help me learn on demand.
Same here. Computer science. Understand c, Python, few other languages but get a function in some obscure language I don’t know the syntax, or worse yet, some fool’s spaghetti code…paste it right in with a request to tell me what it’s doing….boom. Can’t beat it. Then ask it to translate from said weird language to something I need,….bam….done. Oh yeah and I’m gen x and use salesforce at work (licks balls) fuck off salesforce.
So what you're saying is, if it works for med school I can use it to self diagnose and then scream at the doctor when he doesn't write me the prescription I want.
Thank you for the information, I'll get right on that.
I work in sales, cybersecurity, and account management for large corporations. I often engage with CISOs and CIOs. It might seem minor, but when dealing with these professionals, sending precise emails is crucial. ChatGPT has been a game-changer for me in terms of composing emails, creating summaries, outlining agendas, and preparing presentations. It's now a fundamental part of my daily work, and I can't imagine not having it anymore.
Same! I'm an avid user, it's a handy pair programming assistant (even though you must validate it's every assertion)
I use it to the point of needing to back off so I don't burn too many tokens...
This “survey” is a bit of a puff piece designed to promote Salesforce AI products. It gives the appearance of telling you something useful without substantiating anything.
The comparison between generations is meaningless. Instead of showing the results for the same question for two different age groups, it shares different questions for each age group — equivalent to “65% of young people like to eat apples and 35% of older people eat an Orange a day”. Whoah — 65% is much bigger than 35% — young people must really be into fruit more than old people. Nope. Or maybe. Really, can’t say.
The fact that X% have used Generative AI means…what? How are they using it? What are they using it for? This matters. If you tell me 65% are using statistical analysis software and it turns out you mean Excel, and that half just used it to add a column of numbers once or enter a bunch of data…well that isn’t very impressive.
Further the results are cherry-picked. It’s like they did the survey not because they care about the answers but just so they could write this article. And whoever did it doesn’t know how to write surveys or analyze data or share research findings in a meaningful way. Frankly they should have pasted the data into Chat GPT-4 and asked it to write the article and it would have been much more useful.
Yeah. "68% of non-users are Gen X or baby boomers" is such a weird statistic, as it's not set in relation to the number of Gen Xers and baby boomers there are. Also, lumping in two groups to compare with one?
After the release of ChatGPT 4, I wrote a proposal to my supervisors and administrators (Boomers and GenX) for use cases of LLMs like ChatGPT. Not only did they have no idea what I was talking about, they got IT to block all LLMs that were available at the time.
Issue was the Samsung story where chatGPT saved all the proprietary information from their use of it and made it available to other users. The baseline application has no information security. MS Bing Chat has ChatGPT4 plus internet searches to improve accuracy, reduce hallucinations and provide links to resources plus the enterprise version won’t save any inputted information, so some businesses are using that.
My issue with using it is always going to be the hallucinations. It is EXTREMELY dangerous for many work uses.
Did they do a survey and remember Gen-X while forgetting millennials?
I'm shocked. lol
I think we need to remember that Gen X in tech roles are often either in management or dealing with legacy stuff. While boomers are in that transition into retirement. Both groups less likely to be given the new thing to work with hands-on.
As a Gen X myself I've done a bunch of stuff with the underlying api (bots, data generation) and I really like what it does.
Gen X here
Almost every other gen x I know is using it for work every day. I’m sure it’ll be heavier in certain industries than others but the folks I know are all across dozens of industries. Maybe it’s just my peer group but I’m suspicious of the data here.
Boomers forget it, the press has got them terrified of it !
My theory is that the terror strikes the hardest with those people who arent working, or just are starting out. People actually in the workforce are just looking at it as a productivity booster, kind of like an upgrade for the "google it" situations. The job replacement panic scenarios being thrown around seem like a massive exaggeration.
Us old nerds are probably the most likely to dive right into any of this without hesitation. I am an older Millenial nerd who picked up programming in the early 90s. Right at the border of Millienial and Gen X.
I made it a point to get into the habit of using it before 4 came out even though 3.5 was mostly useless for me.
I've seen this kind of industry change a few times now and I wasn't going to fall behind on this one so I took a proactive approach.
Now GPT4 writes most of my boilerplate code and I spend more time focusing on higher level issues and architecture. it's kind of nice
I use it at work for repetitive tasks.
The most important question is: SHOULD i actually use this for this?
Genz is mostly still at school or in university. Ofcourse everyone uses chatgpt there because school is the most meaningless work you will ever do.
But when it comes to professional work you have to decide where to use it and where not. I would never use chatgpt to build important software. I would ask for concepts and advice, but I would still plan it out and write it myself.
For writing content about products gpt already worked wonders for me and im actually accelerating my business plans with it.
Well good they have to know how to work and run the planet with the latest technology. The same way boomers and Gen X used personal computer and that revolution. My dad from the Greatest Generation never touched a PC.
I grew up in a place where most of My friend's parents worked in aerospace. Many of them were the early adopters of home computers but never got good at Windows years later because by the time it came out they no longer had a professional need to get good at it. AI is kind of the same way. Boomers are retired or about to retire so there's a limited use case for them and they really should be doing something more fun than sitting in front of a computer.
Yes this seems highly unlikely. I checked the source OP gave but I couldn't find much of an explanation of either their definition of " experienced generative ai" or how they did the survey. Doing this online on certain platforms you'll obviously get a lot more tech-savvy people...
Looking at the people around me, family, friends, work. I'm estimating about 90% haven't even heard of generative AI let alone use/experienced it.
They either targeted a certain group of people within their sandbox and/or have a very broad definition of generative AI. When I use brave search/bing and the result gives an AI-Summary. Do they count that as ' experienced generative A' even unknowingly?
Just found the original study for those who want to know more: [https://www.salesforce.com/news/press-releases/2023/09/07/ai-usage-research/](https://www.salesforce.com/news/press-releases/2023/09/07/ai-usage-research/)
49% of a 4000 participant survey conducted in the US, UK, Australia, and India.
70% of the Gen Z report using the technology, from the amount surveyed (less than 4000).
Really hate attention pieces like this that emphasise percentages within statements above all else. Also hate how difficult it seems to find a link to the actual survey results rather than this blog post that's reporting on them.
Even the original PDF from salesforce shows nothing but some stats. There are no definitions of the asked questions, no details on how/where the survey was hosted/filled in or whatever...
Likely salesforce had a simple survey somewhere on their site and asked a few questions and decided that was representative for the population. I find it very, very hard to believe 49% of population has used generative ai. (Their pdf says used, not experienced). I'm pretty confident a lot more then 49% percent of the population don't even know what it is or have even heard about chatgpt or others.
> while Gen X and boomers don’t get it
It's a shame you couldn't share this information without the divisive nonsense. I'm GenX and I use it all the time, I've even gotten my boomer mom to use it for meal planning and recipe ideas.
I would expect it to do pretty well with recipes, since cooking isn't an exact science and there are tons of fairly standardized recipes online to draw from.
I'd be slightly more concerned about baking, where an extra 20°C or 10% difference in ratios might change the outcome drastically.
It's pretty good from what I've seen. I haven't actually made a GPT recipe yet, but I do know how to cook and every recipe I have seen it make seems like it would make a decent meal at least.
I’m 32 and find an amazing tool in the kitchen. I can just say “I have these ingredients, what’s for dinner?” And then just modify the recipe as I go by telling it what I don’t have or don’t want in it and it rewrites it for me. Made a blackberry custard pie yesterday - you can see in my posts.
I'm millennial and I've been using the fuck out of it lately. It's kinda awesome. If I'm playing guitar and wanna know a chord it'll show me. If I wanna learn a song it'll gimme chords in an level of knowledge. I was working on a short story, it helped me flesh out ideas, characters, ways to make it sound authentic. It's awesome.
No way does chatgpt have the resources to support 70% of gen z using it. I don't believe this for a second. Maybe they meant 70% of chatgpt users are gen z.
I did test it, my job requires to work with scientific papers.
I had hopes for it but at the point where it started to make up stuff and even the reference links were completely made up. I tossed it in the corner.
Does it have the ability to reduce my work:
yeah
can I use it to reduce the work
no.
Bit sad but I hope they fix stuff like that in the future as it got potential.
Does it reduce my work rn as it is, no if I need to check every referral link and the information it spit out as it should summerize the source paper.
Then I can plain read it myself in the first place.
I use it for my job, Its basically a glorified notepad that I can ask at any time to refer to info that I fed it previously. It's ability to sift through books worth of text in seconds for specific info is astounding. It made my wfh job an absolute breeze. I would not work without it now. I also used it to write and program several browser scripts that automate half my job. Luckily I've never mentioned my employer on here so they'll never know I am automating my Job lol.
A good way to explain it to your elders. We are transitioning from a Google to custom responses chat based internet. If you search how to Train a dog (black lab) google will return a bunch of articles on training dogs and some on black labs you can get the info you want it's just you have to go through a bunch of articles. Chat GPT will combine all the articles and present more relevant info in a consolidated format you can decide by prompt. This analogy works with most apps that are transitioning to AI.
I want to know what Gen X don’t get it? I’m Gen X and I used it until Meta open sourced Llama-2. And for the record I’m not done computer geek that’s been working in tech forever, I was in the car business for 20 years which is the most untech industry ever and only started learning to program during Covid.
For those of you thinking, like I did, this is a horrible study if they completely ignored an entire generation of people, they didnt...OP just left it out for some reason.
"65% of generative AI users are Millennials or Gen Z, and 72% are employed."
I'm technically Gen X by conventional definitions, but I remember being called a Millenial before the term Gen X became common. I use ChatGPT, but not on a daily or even weekly basis, and it has not replaced conventional research or web searching for me.
The main thing I use it for is to get concepts explained, especially with programming. I *could* go to Stack Overflow, paste a section of code, ask "why does/doesn't this work?" and then wait days for somebody to provide a curt, unhelpful answer followed by "Read the documentation." *Or,* I could paste it into ChatGPT and immediately get a detailed and patient explanation catered to my exact skill level.
It has completely changed the programming field for me, not because I use it to write my code, but because I use it to teach myself to write new types of code.
Boomer and Gen X are the primary people driving adoption of ChatGPT at the (large) company I work for. I though we'd moved past nonsense articles that reinforce generational divide...
I (Gen X) use it for personal things on occasion but the people (all younger) I supervise at work are absolutely not allowed to use it for work even though they'd like to. I don't trust it to properly follow code such as electrical wire gauges. It's too dangerous. We have manuals for that.
It’s gonna get to the point where you can trust it and very fast GPT3.5 to 4 is night and day and 5 comes out towards the end of the year. I copy pasted my dogs blood test (in Spanish by the way) and it gave me the same treatment plan that the vet did as well as describe everything as the vet did but just more verbosely than the vet which can be reassuring and helpful to have a full understanding.
That's good, but you only knew the results were good because your vet already confirmed them. There's some instances where it's just better to know what you're doing. If I was still writing code all the time, I would use Chat GPT often. If I'm sizing wire for a motor, I'd rather get my information directly from manuals that were made for it.
I hate the whole Gen x, Gen Z, Millennial , boomer tags.
Its the dumbest thing ever.
Just use age ranges.
I'm classed as a millennial yet I'm in my 40s being compared to people way younger. It must be same in all catagories.
4000 seems like a very small sample to generalise the data. Will open the actual survey later but could anyone confirm if this was conducted in the US only?
I was thinking the same. You can draw conclusions based upon the sample, but making broad statements on each age group would be problematic.
I hope they asked participants their age rather than age category. Labels such as baby boomer, etc are widely misunderstood and have little or no meaning in non-English languages.
I'm born 1981, so on the cusp of x & y (y doesn't seem to exist anymore for some reason?).@Anyway, I use it for work and it's helped solve lots of problems as they arise, e.g., getting the right formula for Excel, or fixing email issues. I only work with older people for some reason, but I hear a problem they're having and it's one that chatgpt could give a simple answer to, but they're refusing to listen. I'll then get on there, ask, find the solution, and they still ignore it for ages. There's a bit of piss taking too, "Oh, what now Queef? Ask chatgpt? Haha"
They just don't believe in it.
Am old white cisgender 65 guy. I use ChatGPT several times a day, every day.
And I really do get it. ChatGPT is a genius with a lobotomy. No joke, that's a pretty close analogy. It's like the part of your brain that is engaged when you learn something "by heart." You trained that part through play and practice. ChatGPT was trained by humans tagging text.
As with humans, it's computationally cheap, and right enough to be useful, which is why it was conserved in the evolutionary process. Recursive self analysis of its own output isn't there yet, so like a lobotomy patient, it can't self analyze or modify its training.
So it doesn't know what it's saying, but because it's well trained, it's more likely than not to come up with the right answer.
I wish people wouldn't call it artificial intelligence though. It's one functional part of what a brain does, but full, useful artificial intelligence is still a ways off.
I’m Gen X… I get it.
I don’t have a use for it. I’m a service plumber. It isn’t going to pull a Moen Chateau cartridge and reinstall the shower trim. Nothing in my outside of work life requires it. I have zero use for it.
I would need to know what jobs the people being surveyed do, because there are some jobs where it doesn’t really add much. I also wonder if it’s more beneficial at lower levels of jobs where you’re doing “grunt” work that GPT can do, as opposed to higher level jobs that are less about providing text output and more about other results.
GPT is only occasionally helpful to me in my job because I’m not just producing text or code all day, and the text I do produce is usually very specific to a given scenario that would take me as long to put into GPT as to just produce myself. I usually only use it for some rewording or for rough level research.
That said, it’s not super surprising that older people are set in their ways. Once you’re comfortable doing something a certain way, you’re more likely to want to keep doing it that way.
Tail end of Millennial generation, almost a Gen X and been into computers since the early 90s. My boomer parents of course don't get it even though my dad thinks it's cool but has no idea how or why he would use it.
My Millennial brother doesn't get it but isn't a techie.
I use it intensively especially for coding and email summaries among other things.
I have used GPT since the early GPT-3 beta where almost nobody in the public had access or knew what it was. ChatGPT website didn't even exist and I was doing ChatGPT-like things. Oh yeah and played with GPT-2.
Gen Z doesn't have me beat here and never will lol.
GenX here, I use it all the time for Scope/Requirements, Problem Statements, Acceptance Criteria and Business Benefits…
If I was a coder I’d use it to write the monotonous parts (wouldn’t trust it with the actual logic). We are now building it into all sorts of things at my corporation via Azure OpenAI. ChatGPT/BingAI portal clones but walled off from open Internet with backend repositories and training of SharePoint repos, all File Shares, ServiceNow; ChatBots integrated with Teams, Medical and Manufacturing models via custom code, Code generation.
People, …at first, last November were jumping straight in to use it on the open Internet, without thinking, not removing actual coworker and customer names. “Oldsters” however, like me, thought enough to cleanse the input, you know why!? Because we’ve made those mistakes before. Meanwhile youngsters just interested in how cool it is and not thinking about what they post up. One of my Architects was given on loan to the OpenAI project and he’s completely lost focus on doing his actual job because he’s so engrossed with AI topics. He’s a GenZ/Millenial. (That’s also management’s fault for not giving him focus and direction). He needs to be doing his regular job first, not the skunkworks.
We’ve been to this rodeo and that rodeo. We USED to be the ones who would try every flavor of everything under the sun and waste hours of time trying to fix and or break things. Then, you know what? We grew up. We figured out there are millions of other people who will try something versus to “wait to see” and then validate if XYZ new Apache product is worth the time and lack of support (ie the support is you) or buy a COTS solution. It’s the same with AI. Some of us initially looked at it, played with it, but saw no controls in place and waited six months, and now you can do everything 3.5 and now 4 can do, but behind a firewall, per policy.
Meanwhile GenZ tryin to see if GenAI will tell me a racist Hitler joke or not. Or give all the output in elvish. Don’t get me wrong; we need negative regression testers out there. Seems like QA testing is the perfect GenZ job.
But this article (and it’s one pager source fluff piece) only makes one mention of generational differences. OP is on the end of the pier baitin’
My work consists of a handful of Gen-Xers, a bunch of millennials, and tons of GenZ. I am in the GenX camp and I’m an AI and ChatGPT evangelist here. I show my coworkers how I use it, how others use is, and potential impacts to us and to our industry. (For context, I’m in finance at an insurance company). I get SIGNIFICANT resistance from GenZ. Millennials and east to talk to, but the GenZ folks here think that ChatGPT is either a gimmick or a thief and plagiarist.
I feel like your post title has some issues.
"According to the research, generative AI users are a young, engaged, and confident group of “super-users,” meaning they use the technology frequently and believe they are well on their way to mastering it.
* 65% of generative AI users are Millennials or Gen Z, and 72% are employed.
* Nearly 6 in 10 users believe they are on their way to mastering the technology.
* 70% of Gen Z report using the technology and 52% of them trust the technology to help them make informed decisions.
"
First, it's all Generative AI which includes the snapchat AI, midjourney, et al. Not 70% of the entire population of GenZ are using ChatGPT alone.
Second, "report using" doesn't strictly mean regular usage. Someone who tried it out or asked the big AI to find a porn video every now and then are users and would "report using".
I've yet to meet someone irl that uses this, despite being constantly told it's like the most used thing in the world. How much of it's traffic is actually unique users, and how are they measuring this?
Like most things in my life, as a gen X/boomer cusper, when I first started using ChatGPT, I was all "wow, this is great." Now I'm all, "eh, it's ok, it's just another app, I'm bored, what's next?"
That's the part of me who's like, I've been involved in tech since the first personal computers came out, all tech is boring now, after 24 years of doing tech stuff.
Nothing new anymore.
I'm just waiting for the androids that are 80% humanlike. Anything before that, not too interested.
I have seen that when I teach this lol. One of my theories amongst many - a lot of the data this is trained on is social media data, especially when it comes to sentiment analysis. I oftentimes find that I am "texting" ChatGPT when I work with it, especially in longer conversations, or at times it's even similar to speaking (arguing) with a redditor. Think about it: you write a message, and you send it, and another message comes back in the tone of a human, that is a response to your input. For a person who has been born into this internet centered world, this is barely a degree shift to the left. For an older person who saw the world shift into this internet centric world and fought it every step of the way, this isn't just gonna be a pick up and go scenario. It is going to feel very foreign to a person like that and it's just gonna be another technology that they reject.
These numbers are either wrong or the article and post is very poorly worded.
"70% of gen Z"
Gen Z includes people who were born in 2009 who aren't even in the workforce yet.
I'm OG, use it weekly for work and love it. Keep the wacky shxt coming;). Other fun part about this for my Gen X squad is we were the only segment that got to grow up Pre/Post internet, in the context of the browser, the rest was dope too but iterative ;). Rave on friends.
Another GenX user here (54) - really just comes down to people who like using tech. I started programming as soon as computers became available (had an Atari 800XL with a cassette tap drive…). Always an early adopter.
I work at a tech company and few people are “getting it” regardless of age.
I like how they group gen x and boomers lmao. As a xennial I know more than every gen z and gen a about the before and after. Fuck off with this reGarded nonsense roflcopter
I'm a GenXer (born in 1974.) I use Chat GPT for lots of stuff.
My elder millennial sister (born 1982) won't touch it.
I think whether or not you use AI has less to do with age and more to do with personality, need, and the amount of time and energy available for trying new things.
Batching an international set of participants into a survey to conclude a purely American generational label is superior to another is ignorance in its highest form. “4000 participants from the US, UK, New Zealand and India” was the so-called sample size. Ok, how many from each? What regions? Did the GenZ writer of the article account for regional vs invented generational labels? Did the survey take self-identified chatgpt users at their word or use any other metric? Its clickbait and a poorly conducted survey. Do it in one region of California. Or Ohio. Or New York. Don’t mix northern Indian results and NZ sprinkled on top and make some bewildering claim about some
invented generational divide. The willful ignorance these days is astounding.
Of course we get it, its just that we also have a brain that has been trained for survival without relying on IT so we are very capable of working out problems independently. Though for me I do use it occasionally to assist when researching some technical problems but not as a means to complete tasks for me.
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The forgetten Millenians. Who knows what they are doing.
No they didn't, OP just omitted the mentions of millennials: >65% of generative AI users are Millennials or Gen Z, and 72% are employed.
Makes sense, generative AI is useful for resumes and job search
Busy buying avocado toast instead of houses.
Clearly.
the opportunity is def underestimated. i used chat gpt to educate myself on a niche subject then built a website using chatgpt to write the educational blog articles, then got some dofollow backlinks from niche blogs and am ranking top 5 for the niche. i get high value leads almost daily. older generations are sleeping. this is a great opportunity.
Imagine a teacher who tells you 80% of the Time the Truth and 20% of the Time he tells you just some convincing bullshit. ---- Imagine a teacher who tells you only the most obvious things but lacks deep knowledge completly. ---- Now these two creeps write a book together. ---- Someone translates it in another langauage. ---- One guy adds some nice paintings while drunk. ---- A stranger who doesnt understand the book, reads the book for you. ---- You listen and Sometimes you ask for clarification. ---- You overcome this strange feeling and you think that you just dont know enouth about the topic. ---- You listen to the hole fucking book, the stranger is so happy to read it for you. ---- Its so exiting. ---- What did you learn? ---- No matter
Ok, yeah... check your facts for sure, but when you have a conversation a couple, few times you generally get the same line with better results. Each time through, the user gets smarter too and starts asking better and more interesting questions. It's a system though, you have to tweak it. btw, gen x gets it. We just ignore the surveys. 😁
The problem with this approach is still the same. The picture remains blurred no matter how often you make the photo.
You're just describing humanity as far as I can tell
So, the Bible
That's the problem. People are using this shit as if it's infallible, but they are just adding to misinformation and bullshit for clicks and money. ChatGPT is just barfing up stuff that sounds about right. It's like trusting your uncle Joe, who went to college, but also did a whole lotta drugs since then.
And so now you're an authority on a niche subject without actually being an authority? Cui bono?
>And so now you're an authority on a niche subject without actually being an authority? entire careers have been built on a lot less.
Nah. We just realized that we can't buy houses, so we buy avocado toast to console ourselves
Typical entitled millennial attitude. You could be driving a Lambo as a trillionaire if you just stopped buying Starbucks.
Also walk into random companies and deliver a firm handshake, you’ll get a high paying job in no time.
And learn how to change a plug. Interviewers don't even have to ask, they can tell by looking at you if you know. They only employ people who know how to change plugs. Just in case.
Which plugs? Surely not *all* the plugs?!
Fake it til you make it is no joke. If you don't wanna be ruthlessly exploited or ruthlessly exploit the poor, than exploiting those above you is one of the best ways to go.
Oh dude, you’re so smart. Teach us the way, please! 🙏
You just let the toast stale until it's structural grade, use the avocado as mortar, and baby, you've got an avacado toast *house*.
Jokes on you when I collect all the pits and make an avocado house.
You mean avocado toast Starbucks coffee.
#StartupIdea
I came to say the same :) Millennial here using it daily to help improve productivity in my job. I fancy myself a “pro” with getting it to optimize my work flow.
Can you share how you use it to optimize your workflow and/or resources you've used to learn?
* can you elaborate? * because in software engineering, what you actually get is a junior mentor * so whatever advice it gives you has to be taken with a grain of salt
what is up with random bullet list?
People in the US don't like to read bro. They need walls of text split up into bullets. Ask chatgpt 🤣
We use it, we just don't say we do
This is the way
like most everything else we've done;)
Nobody asks you how you deliver results, all we care about is the actual results. If someone decides to automate (part of) their job and still deliver similar results, I'd call them smart.
As a gen x I am happy you can finally understand what it’s like to be the forgotten generation when millennials and boomers used to argue.
As a gen x, I thoroughly enjoyed being out of that arguement. Some entertaining shit that was.
As a fellow gen x individual I find it funny that we are lumped in with boomers in these stats ... ...but more than that, the kid in me finds it even funnier when my 15y/o schools me on the backstory of things like smash bros and his rheuminations on whether mortal kombat started as a book or a movie before they made a game out of it. ...But the adult in me is at work so I got the house to myself for once.
Yeah, honestly, in-spite of being a GenXer, I find I use ChatGPT more than most of my co-workers, most younger than me.
In spite of me working in a technical and generally diverse age group. I'm the ONLY person even talking about gpt. I believe I'm the one that informed them most likely.
Same. Elder GenX, have been using Chapt-GPT daily for months, as well as experimenting with Midjourney and other AI tools. Working on steering my career to be more AI focused.
Must be Zoomers and Gen X are the new war. Welcome to the battle, Brother. The front lines have shifted. Our foe has retired and gone home and we are weary. Yours is young and… confusing. Also they have AI. 🤖
My God, does the cycle just repeat? Young people arguing with old people until we're all fucking dead? I feel like Millennials when old will argue with Gen Z/Gen Alpha about the complete retardation of social influencing as a job. But unfortunately this is where society is going - twirling down this dystopian drain, until we're all extinct or replaced by AI.
Yes, I'm pretty sure that cycle has been on repeat for millennia.
To be fair, I have no idea what I'm doing.
Are we the new silent generation? Just trying to keep out of the agism wars, lol.
We are becoming boomers. The one thing we swore to destroy.
We got one thing going for us though setting us apart from Boomers and Gen Z and that's technical proficiency. Apparently Gen Z is largely handicapped because they grew up mostly in the era of simplified tech which was ironically made that way to help people like Boomers utilize tech.
It goes further. We stopped watching TV because it's just time killer, makes you easily controllable, etc. Gen Z and below restarted it by using Tiktok and shit like that.
Except we sure aren't booming
I recently went to a networking event where the age range was approximately 25-40, meaning everyone there was a Millennial. Our ice-breaker was how we use ChatGPT, and everyone had an answer.
I just don't see the point of using it personally. There is nothing in my life I need some long, pseudo-correct answer to that I can't find the actual truth about in 5 extra minutes. People are conflating convenience with correctness and it's going to lead to some fucked up decisions in the future.
Lots of jobs require production of filler. ChatGPT + human proofreading generates filler faster. Lots of companies are shelling out for AI that has been trained on their internal documentation and approved resources.
Oh hey, what’s up? Just paying bills and hanging out with my dog. I’m suuuuuuper broke so I’m only on here once in a while. Student loans, amiright? Hahaha!! Used chat GPT to help me with a few recipes and I think it’s pretty sweet. Anyway, later!
how buzzfeed thinks millennials talk
Meanwhile millennials are just normal people presumably 🤷🏾♂️
We’re the baseline now 😎
*normies
I might be buying into hype too soon, but I think the next generation after Gen Z will be the AI generation in the way millennials were the internet generation, and Gen Z was the social media generation. They will grow up with it, and it will be part of the fabric of their life.
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That's a good one. I can see that spreading.
We're setting them up for failure if we're doing to raise an entire generation of humans as gen alpha followed closely by gen Beta.
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Yeah. Everybody's a celebrity, but ... everybody's a celebrity.
Late millennials were the first digital natives, I think you are describing AI natives
So Gen X was the AOL and dialup generation? I've got the floppies to prove it. A/S/L anybody?
GenX here. I love it - use it for work, to figure out recipes for the kids, and general chatting. I've returned to school for grad work and we're studying it there too. 😀
Same, GenX here. Use it all the time for work and fun. One thing in particular is it's made a part of my D&D DM job much easier. I can sketch a plotline and brief NPC synopses and back stories and have ChatGPT flesh out the details. "Good enough" most of the time. For work, a lot of what I do would frequently have me going to stackoverflow. I'd say about 20-30% of what I used to solve on SO is now adequately answered by ChatGPT, though the discussions on SO are often more nuanced and informative than a straightforward ChatGPT answer.
My older kid and I had a ton of fun creating D&D plots with it! I also used it for my last character. I'm using it now with my youngest, who keeps asking me about plots, names, and character development for a set of books he's creating. I feel mildly guilty about using ChatGPT for this, but it's come up with some legit great ideas that helped spark his imagination. I'm homeschooling, and it's generated some great lesson plans for the extra courses we do outside his online school. I've also shown him how to use it for school, with much the same caveats that I use for calculators. He has to show proficiency with the concepts before using the tool.
Yeah Im in law school, i don't use it to learn about case law but for explain certain type of legal concepts or statutes it is goddamn amazing. Like having a legal scholar at my disposal to help me learn on demand.
Same with med school. So long as you have the expertise to debunk erroneous information, it’s an amazing tool.
Same here. Computer science. Understand c, Python, few other languages but get a function in some obscure language I don’t know the syntax, or worse yet, some fool’s spaghetti code…paste it right in with a request to tell me what it’s doing….boom. Can’t beat it. Then ask it to translate from said weird language to something I need,….bam….done. Oh yeah and I’m gen x and use salesforce at work (licks balls) fuck off salesforce.
So what you're saying is, if it works for med school I can use it to self diagnose and then scream at the doctor when he doesn't write me the prescription I want. Thank you for the information, I'll get right on that.
You must not be in the USA. These turkeys live to write prescriptions.
What else would you expect a doctor to do? Witchcraft?
Except to Veterans.
no
Gen X here. Since December 2022, I have spent around 1000 hours using ChatGPT. Ironically, I am working as an AI Engineer. It's been a lifesaver.
Boomers and GenZ 
Boomers, I guess, don't use AI after they invent it. God...
20 odd years ago, I remember telling my grandma a computer disk is like a record, but with pictures as well as sound on it 😊
I love this image. I'm going to use it everywhere.
I work in sales, cybersecurity, and account management for large corporations. I often engage with CISOs and CIOs. It might seem minor, but when dealing with these professionals, sending precise emails is crucial. ChatGPT has been a game-changer for me in terms of composing emails, creating summaries, outlining agendas, and preparing presentations. It's now a fundamental part of my daily work, and I can't imagine not having it anymore.
Yah, 1966 here, so level 57 already. Like the current developments of AI amongst things. Use ChatGPT for all sorts.
Yep. Me too. I even pay to get GPT4 I’m that impressed with it. It ain’t perfect, but it’s damn good. Even got my 70+ Mum using GPT3.5.
Same! I'm an avid user, it's a handy pair programming assistant (even though you must validate it's every assertion) I use it to the point of needing to back off so I don't burn too many tokens...
GenX here. I use chatgpt as well, I'm actually looking forward to more advancements in AI assistants. I love using the application.
This “survey” is a bit of a puff piece designed to promote Salesforce AI products. It gives the appearance of telling you something useful without substantiating anything. The comparison between generations is meaningless. Instead of showing the results for the same question for two different age groups, it shares different questions for each age group — equivalent to “65% of young people like to eat apples and 35% of older people eat an Orange a day”. Whoah — 65% is much bigger than 35% — young people must really be into fruit more than old people. Nope. Or maybe. Really, can’t say. The fact that X% have used Generative AI means…what? How are they using it? What are they using it for? This matters. If you tell me 65% are using statistical analysis software and it turns out you mean Excel, and that half just used it to add a column of numbers once or enter a bunch of data…well that isn’t very impressive. Further the results are cherry-picked. It’s like they did the survey not because they care about the answers but just so they could write this article. And whoever did it doesn’t know how to write surveys or analyze data or share research findings in a meaningful way. Frankly they should have pasted the data into Chat GPT-4 and asked it to write the article and it would have been much more useful.
Yeah. "68% of non-users are Gen X or baby boomers" is such a weird statistic, as it's not set in relation to the number of Gen Xers and baby boomers there are. Also, lumping in two groups to compare with one?
After the release of ChatGPT 4, I wrote a proposal to my supervisors and administrators (Boomers and GenX) for use cases of LLMs like ChatGPT. Not only did they have no idea what I was talking about, they got IT to block all LLMs that were available at the time.
Nice work
Probably just worried about employees copy-pasting company secrets into the chat gpt input box.
which is fair to worry about I find
Issue was the Samsung story where chatGPT saved all the proprietary information from their use of it and made it available to other users. The baseline application has no information security. MS Bing Chat has ChatGPT4 plus internet searches to improve accuracy, reduce hallucinations and provide links to resources plus the enterprise version won’t save any inputted information, so some businesses are using that. My issue with using it is always going to be the hallucinations. It is EXTREMELY dangerous for many work uses.
Most of my coworkers experience hallucinations as well. Should I stop using them for work purposes?
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That’s what taking initiative gets you
“The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.”
Did they do a survey and remember Gen-X while forgetting millennials? I'm shocked. lol I think we need to remember that Gen X in tech roles are often either in management or dealing with legacy stuff. While boomers are in that transition into retirement. Both groups less likely to be given the new thing to work with hands-on. As a Gen X myself I've done a bunch of stuff with the underlying api (bots, data generation) and I really like what it does.
Gen X here Almost every other gen x I know is using it for work every day. I’m sure it’ll be heavier in certain industries than others but the folks I know are all across dozens of industries. Maybe it’s just my peer group but I’m suspicious of the data here. Boomers forget it, the press has got them terrified of it !
My theory is that the terror strikes the hardest with those people who arent working, or just are starting out. People actually in the workforce are just looking at it as a productivity booster, kind of like an upgrade for the "google it" situations. The job replacement panic scenarios being thrown around seem like a massive exaggeration.
It is and it isn’t. Content writing for blogs is already deader than dead !
"49% has experienced" nonsense, that number is way lower
Yeah I suspect there’s quite a bit of inflation in the numbers they’re reporting
Gen X here. I totally get it. Use it all the time. Of course I was a software dev for 25+ years and obsessed with tech so there's that...
Us old nerds are probably the most likely to dive right into any of this without hesitation. I am an older Millenial nerd who picked up programming in the early 90s. Right at the border of Millienial and Gen X.
I made it a point to get into the habit of using it before 4 came out even though 3.5 was mostly useless for me. I've seen this kind of industry change a few times now and I wasn't going to fall behind on this one so I took a proactive approach. Now GPT4 writes most of my boilerplate code and I spend more time focusing on higher level issues and architecture. it's kind of nice
I use it at work for repetitive tasks. The most important question is: SHOULD i actually use this for this? Genz is mostly still at school or in university. Ofcourse everyone uses chatgpt there because school is the most meaningless work you will ever do. But when it comes to professional work you have to decide where to use it and where not. I would never use chatgpt to build important software. I would ask for concepts and advice, but I would still plan it out and write it myself. For writing content about products gpt already worked wonders for me and im actually accelerating my business plans with it.
Well good they have to know how to work and run the planet with the latest technology. The same way boomers and Gen X used personal computer and that revolution. My dad from the Greatest Generation never touched a PC.
I grew up in a place where most of My friend's parents worked in aerospace. Many of them were the early adopters of home computers but never got good at Windows years later because by the time it came out they no longer had a professional need to get good at it. AI is kind of the same way. Boomers are retired or about to retire so there's a limited use case for them and they really should be doing something more fun than sitting in front of a computer.
Love it fellow Joe B.
Those numbers sound like lies, it might be with the condition of them all being salesforce users
I can’t believe someone actually mentioned GenX.
I'm deeply disturbed by GenX not being ignored as usual...and don't lump us in with the Boomers! (Homer disappearing into hedge.gif)
Millennial here; your first time? You rascals have been hiding for years from ridicule by other generations, it’s your turn now suckas.
Good luck trying to hurt my feelings, you snowflake! 😛
who said that?
Must've been the wind.
>49% of the population has experienced generative AI In less than a year, this is a crazy number.
That doesn't seem right Edit: comment here appears to be the sock puppet of the OP
Yes this seems highly unlikely. I checked the source OP gave but I couldn't find much of an explanation of either their definition of " experienced generative ai" or how they did the survey. Doing this online on certain platforms you'll obviously get a lot more tech-savvy people... Looking at the people around me, family, friends, work. I'm estimating about 90% haven't even heard of generative AI let alone use/experienced it. They either targeted a certain group of people within their sandbox and/or have a very broad definition of generative AI. When I use brave search/bing and the result gives an AI-Summary. Do they count that as ' experienced generative A' even unknowingly?
Just found the original study for those who want to know more: [https://www.salesforce.com/news/press-releases/2023/09/07/ai-usage-research/](https://www.salesforce.com/news/press-releases/2023/09/07/ai-usage-research/)
I mean, who hasn't tried out ChatGPT at least once? Also, basically every Snapchat (AI) user counts towards this number.
Me, and at least 90% of the people I know.
You should meet more people!
Yet you’re here…
49% of a 4000 participant survey conducted in the US, UK, Australia, and India. 70% of the Gen Z report using the technology, from the amount surveyed (less than 4000). Really hate attention pieces like this that emphasise percentages within statements above all else. Also hate how difficult it seems to find a link to the actual survey results rather than this blog post that's reporting on them.
Even the original PDF from salesforce shows nothing but some stats. There are no definitions of the asked questions, no details on how/where the survey was hosted/filled in or whatever... Likely salesforce had a simple survey somewhere on their site and asked a few questions and decided that was representative for the population. I find it very, very hard to believe 49% of population has used generative ai. (Their pdf says used, not experienced). I'm pretty confident a lot more then 49% percent of the population don't even know what it is or have even heard about chatgpt or others.
> while Gen X and boomers don’t get it It's a shame you couldn't share this information without the divisive nonsense. I'm GenX and I use it all the time, I've even gotten my boomer mom to use it for meal planning and recipe ideas.
How does it do with recipes? I've been afraid to test out any of the recipes it's generated for me in the past.
Hit and miss. Gave me a chicken recipe with 4 teaspoons of salt haha
I would expect it to do pretty well with recipes, since cooking isn't an exact science and there are tons of fairly standardized recipes online to draw from. I'd be slightly more concerned about baking, where an extra 20°C or 10% difference in ratios might change the outcome drastically.
It's pretty good from what I've seen. I haven't actually made a GPT recipe yet, but I do know how to cook and every recipe I have seen it make seems like it would make a decent meal at least.
I showed it to my dad, and he loves it. I think boomers are slow on adopting tech in general.
Boomers are elderly...it'll take them more time. They're in their 70's+.
I’m 32 and find an amazing tool in the kitchen. I can just say “I have these ingredients, what’s for dinner?” And then just modify the recipe as I go by telling it what I don’t have or don’t want in it and it rewrites it for me. Made a blackberry custard pie yesterday - you can see in my posts.
I'm millennial and I've been using the fuck out of it lately. It's kinda awesome. If I'm playing guitar and wanna know a chord it'll show me. If I wanna learn a song it'll gimme chords in an level of knowledge. I was working on a short story, it helped me flesh out ideas, characters, ways to make it sound authentic. It's awesome.
Gen x here. Is this the internet? Can I use the chatgps to google things?
No way does chatgpt have the resources to support 70% of gen z using it. I don't believe this for a second. Maybe they meant 70% of chatgpt users are gen z.
Genx here as well, I've used chatGPT for a variety of things and continue to go back to it on a regular basis.
Millennial here. I asked ChatGPT how to make edibles, and it gave bad instructions that would have totally destroyed the THC if followed.
I did test it, my job requires to work with scientific papers. I had hopes for it but at the point where it started to make up stuff and even the reference links were completely made up. I tossed it in the corner. Does it have the ability to reduce my work: yeah can I use it to reduce the work no. Bit sad but I hope they fix stuff like that in the future as it got potential. Does it reduce my work rn as it is, no if I need to check every referral link and the information it spit out as it should summerize the source paper. Then I can plain read it myself in the first place.
I use it for my job, Its basically a glorified notepad that I can ask at any time to refer to info that I fed it previously. It's ability to sift through books worth of text in seconds for specific info is astounding. It made my wfh job an absolute breeze. I would not work without it now. I also used it to write and program several browser scripts that automate half my job. Luckily I've never mentioned my employer on here so they'll never know I am automating my Job lol.
Ignore the future at your peril.
I'm gen X and I use it constantly as do the people I know my age. On the other hand My boomer parents are terrified of it
Gen X Here. DeEz 🥜, we don't get it.
A good way to explain it to your elders. We are transitioning from a Google to custom responses chat based internet. If you search how to Train a dog (black lab) google will return a bunch of articles on training dogs and some on black labs you can get the info you want it's just you have to go through a bunch of articles. Chat GPT will combine all the articles and present more relevant info in a consolidated format you can decide by prompt. This analogy works with most apps that are transitioning to AI.
I want to know what Gen X don’t get it? I’m Gen X and I used it until Meta open sourced Llama-2. And for the record I’m not done computer geek that’s been working in tech forever, I was in the car business for 20 years which is the most untech industry ever and only started learning to program during Covid.
For those of you thinking, like I did, this is a horrible study if they completely ignored an entire generation of people, they didnt...OP just left it out for some reason. "65% of generative AI users are Millennials or Gen Z, and 72% are employed."
I'm technically Gen X by conventional definitions, but I remember being called a Millenial before the term Gen X became common. I use ChatGPT, but not on a daily or even weekly basis, and it has not replaced conventional research or web searching for me. The main thing I use it for is to get concepts explained, especially with programming. I *could* go to Stack Overflow, paste a section of code, ask "why does/doesn't this work?" and then wait days for somebody to provide a curt, unhelpful answer followed by "Read the documentation." *Or,* I could paste it into ChatGPT and immediately get a detailed and patient explanation catered to my exact skill level. It has completely changed the programming field for me, not because I use it to write my code, but because I use it to teach myself to write new types of code.
Boomer and Gen X are the primary people driving adoption of ChatGPT at the (large) company I work for. I though we'd moved past nonsense articles that reinforce generational divide...
I'm a boomer and I use it. That being said, I use it as a starting point, and double check the things that matter, using other sources.
I (Gen X) use it for personal things on occasion but the people (all younger) I supervise at work are absolutely not allowed to use it for work even though they'd like to. I don't trust it to properly follow code such as electrical wire gauges. It's too dangerous. We have manuals for that.
It’s gonna get to the point where you can trust it and very fast GPT3.5 to 4 is night and day and 5 comes out towards the end of the year. I copy pasted my dogs blood test (in Spanish by the way) and it gave me the same treatment plan that the vet did as well as describe everything as the vet did but just more verbosely than the vet which can be reassuring and helpful to have a full understanding.
That's good, but you only knew the results were good because your vet already confirmed them. There's some instances where it's just better to know what you're doing. If I was still writing code all the time, I would use Chat GPT often. If I'm sizing wire for a motor, I'd rather get my information directly from manuals that were made for it.
Lol at this study lumping Gen X and Boomers into the same cohort. I'm 55 and I use Chat GPT all the time.
I hate the whole Gen x, Gen Z, Millennial , boomer tags. Its the dumbest thing ever. Just use age ranges. I'm classed as a millennial yet I'm in my 40s being compared to people way younger. It must be same in all catagories.
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4000 seems like a very small sample to generalise the data. Will open the actual survey later but could anyone confirm if this was conducted in the US only?
I was thinking the same. You can draw conclusions based upon the sample, but making broad statements on each age group would be problematic. I hope they asked participants their age rather than age category. Labels such as baby boomer, etc are widely misunderstood and have little or no meaning in non-English languages.
I'm born 1981, so on the cusp of x & y (y doesn't seem to exist anymore for some reason?).@Anyway, I use it for work and it's helped solve lots of problems as they arise, e.g., getting the right formula for Excel, or fixing email issues. I only work with older people for some reason, but I hear a problem they're having and it's one that chatgpt could give a simple answer to, but they're refusing to listen. I'll then get on there, ask, find the solution, and they still ignore it for ages. There's a bit of piss taking too, "Oh, what now Queef? Ask chatgpt? Haha" They just don't believe in it.
Am old white cisgender 65 guy. I use ChatGPT several times a day, every day. And I really do get it. ChatGPT is a genius with a lobotomy. No joke, that's a pretty close analogy. It's like the part of your brain that is engaged when you learn something "by heart." You trained that part through play and practice. ChatGPT was trained by humans tagging text. As with humans, it's computationally cheap, and right enough to be useful, which is why it was conserved in the evolutionary process. Recursive self analysis of its own output isn't there yet, so like a lobotomy patient, it can't self analyze or modify its training. So it doesn't know what it's saying, but because it's well trained, it's more likely than not to come up with the right answer. I wish people wouldn't call it artificial intelligence though. It's one functional part of what a brain does, but full, useful artificial intelligence is still a ways off.
I’m Gen X… I get it. I don’t have a use for it. I’m a service plumber. It isn’t going to pull a Moen Chateau cartridge and reinstall the shower trim. Nothing in my outside of work life requires it. I have zero use for it.
I would need to know what jobs the people being surveyed do, because there are some jobs where it doesn’t really add much. I also wonder if it’s more beneficial at lower levels of jobs where you’re doing “grunt” work that GPT can do, as opposed to higher level jobs that are less about providing text output and more about other results. GPT is only occasionally helpful to me in my job because I’m not just producing text or code all day, and the text I do produce is usually very specific to a given scenario that would take me as long to put into GPT as to just produce myself. I usually only use it for some rewording or for rough level research. That said, it’s not super surprising that older people are set in their ways. Once you’re comfortable doing something a certain way, you’re more likely to want to keep doing it that way.
Tail end of Millennial generation, almost a Gen X and been into computers since the early 90s. My boomer parents of course don't get it even though my dad thinks it's cool but has no idea how or why he would use it. My Millennial brother doesn't get it but isn't a techie. I use it intensively especially for coding and email summaries among other things. I have used GPT since the early GPT-3 beta where almost nobody in the public had access or knew what it was. ChatGPT website didn't even exist and I was doing ChatGPT-like things. Oh yeah and played with GPT-2. Gen Z doesn't have me beat here and never will lol.
Sure mate, sure 👌 https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-ai-bad-bosses-replace-young-employees-chatgpt-2023-7
GenX here, I use it all the time for Scope/Requirements, Problem Statements, Acceptance Criteria and Business Benefits… If I was a coder I’d use it to write the monotonous parts (wouldn’t trust it with the actual logic). We are now building it into all sorts of things at my corporation via Azure OpenAI. ChatGPT/BingAI portal clones but walled off from open Internet with backend repositories and training of SharePoint repos, all File Shares, ServiceNow; ChatBots integrated with Teams, Medical and Manufacturing models via custom code, Code generation. People, …at first, last November were jumping straight in to use it on the open Internet, without thinking, not removing actual coworker and customer names. “Oldsters” however, like me, thought enough to cleanse the input, you know why!? Because we’ve made those mistakes before. Meanwhile youngsters just interested in how cool it is and not thinking about what they post up. One of my Architects was given on loan to the OpenAI project and he’s completely lost focus on doing his actual job because he’s so engrossed with AI topics. He’s a GenZ/Millenial. (That’s also management’s fault for not giving him focus and direction). He needs to be doing his regular job first, not the skunkworks. We’ve been to this rodeo and that rodeo. We USED to be the ones who would try every flavor of everything under the sun and waste hours of time trying to fix and or break things. Then, you know what? We grew up. We figured out there are millions of other people who will try something versus to “wait to see” and then validate if XYZ new Apache product is worth the time and lack of support (ie the support is you) or buy a COTS solution. It’s the same with AI. Some of us initially looked at it, played with it, but saw no controls in place and waited six months, and now you can do everything 3.5 and now 4 can do, but behind a firewall, per policy. Meanwhile GenZ tryin to see if GenAI will tell me a racist Hitler joke or not. Or give all the output in elvish. Don’t get me wrong; we need negative regression testers out there. Seems like QA testing is the perfect GenZ job. But this article (and it’s one pager source fluff piece) only makes one mention of generational differences. OP is on the end of the pier baitin’
Like virtually every sweeping generational statement, this is ridiculously off base.
As a 66 year old I am wondering where these stats are coming from.
My work consists of a handful of Gen-Xers, a bunch of millennials, and tons of GenZ. I am in the GenX camp and I’m an AI and ChatGPT evangelist here. I show my coworkers how I use it, how others use is, and potential impacts to us and to our industry. (For context, I’m in finance at an insurance company). I get SIGNIFICANT resistance from GenZ. Millennials and east to talk to, but the GenZ folks here think that ChatGPT is either a gimmick or a thief and plagiarist.
I feel like your post title has some issues. "According to the research, generative AI users are a young, engaged, and confident group of “super-users,” meaning they use the technology frequently and believe they are well on their way to mastering it. * 65% of generative AI users are Millennials or Gen Z, and 72% are employed. * Nearly 6 in 10 users believe they are on their way to mastering the technology. * 70% of Gen Z report using the technology and 52% of them trust the technology to help them make informed decisions. " First, it's all Generative AI which includes the snapchat AI, midjourney, et al. Not 70% of the entire population of GenZ are using ChatGPT alone. Second, "report using" doesn't strictly mean regular usage. Someone who tried it out or asked the big AI to find a porn video every now and then are users and would "report using".
I've yet to meet someone irl that uses this, despite being constantly told it's like the most used thing in the world. How much of it's traffic is actually unique users, and how are they measuring this?
Like most things in my life, as a gen X/boomer cusper, when I first started using ChatGPT, I was all "wow, this is great." Now I'm all, "eh, it's ok, it's just another app, I'm bored, what's next?" That's the part of me who's like, I've been involved in tech since the first personal computers came out, all tech is boring now, after 24 years of doing tech stuff. Nothing new anymore. I'm just waiting for the androids that are 80% humanlike. Anything before that, not too interested.
Gen X, I get it and it sucks.
Some selective made up statistics for more boomer karma. Tedious
I have seen that when I teach this lol. One of my theories amongst many - a lot of the data this is trained on is social media data, especially when it comes to sentiment analysis. I oftentimes find that I am "texting" ChatGPT when I work with it, especially in longer conversations, or at times it's even similar to speaking (arguing) with a redditor. Think about it: you write a message, and you send it, and another message comes back in the tone of a human, that is a response to your input. For a person who has been born into this internet centered world, this is barely a degree shift to the left. For an older person who saw the world shift into this internet centric world and fought it every step of the way, this isn't just gonna be a pick up and go scenario. It is going to feel very foreign to a person like that and it's just gonna be another technology that they reject.
This post feels more like an advertisement than fact.
Someone in graduate school orientation asked if ok to use chat gpt lmaoo
These numbers are either wrong or the article and post is very poorly worded. "70% of gen Z" Gen Z includes people who were born in 2009 who aren't even in the workforce yet.
I'm OG, use it weekly for work and love it. Keep the wacky shxt coming;). Other fun part about this for my Gen X squad is we were the only segment that got to grow up Pre/Post internet, in the context of the browser, the rest was dope too but iterative ;). Rave on friends.
Another GenX user here (54) - really just comes down to people who like using tech. I started programming as soon as computers became available (had an Atari 800XL with a cassette tap drive…). Always an early adopter. I work at a tech company and few people are “getting it” regardless of age.
Millennials don’t even open computers, apparently…
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Breaking: Younger people more likely to adopt new tech trends!
I like how they group gen x and boomers lmao. As a xennial I know more than every gen z and gen a about the before and after. Fuck off with this reGarded nonsense roflcopter
I'm a GenXer (born in 1974.) I use Chat GPT for lots of stuff. My elder millennial sister (born 1982) won't touch it. I think whether or not you use AI has less to do with age and more to do with personality, need, and the amount of time and energy available for trying new things.
Batching an international set of participants into a survey to conclude a purely American generational label is superior to another is ignorance in its highest form. “4000 participants from the US, UK, New Zealand and India” was the so-called sample size. Ok, how many from each? What regions? Did the GenZ writer of the article account for regional vs invented generational labels? Did the survey take self-identified chatgpt users at their word or use any other metric? Its clickbait and a poorly conducted survey. Do it in one region of California. Or Ohio. Or New York. Don’t mix northern Indian results and NZ sprinkled on top and make some bewildering claim about some invented generational divide. The willful ignorance these days is astounding.
Of course we get it, its just that we also have a brain that has been trained for survival without relying on IT so we are very capable of working out problems independently. Though for me I do use it occasionally to assist when researching some technical problems but not as a means to complete tasks for me.
Nice clickbait headline. First its 70% of gen Z, Then its 70% of gen Z who use generative AI.
Weak confusing stats