700 million people use chatgpt, but not as you think

Original): Sanskar Gupta

Originally published in the direction of artificial intelligence.

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Until July 2025, CHATGPT hit 700 million weekly users, sending over 2.5 billion messages each day. This is one in ten adults on the planet talking to AI every week.

I was interesting enough to spend some time at the depth Nber paper It analyzed millions of conversations to find out what people actually Down With chatgpt.

And I just love the fact that reality is very different from noise.

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Chatgpt has no more work

Forget about a conversation about productivity. Over 70% of the use of chatgpt is now related to work. And not because a new crowd appeared. The same people who once logged in to get the help of we -mail and presentations now use it for tips on cooking, fitness planning or learning guitar chords.

This is a quiet revolution. We were sold the narrative “Ai for Work”, but the real value is in everyday life. Economists have placed an annual surplus of consumers in the United States alone at the level of $ 97 billion.

Translation: People value what chatgpt does for them outside, work almost the same as inside.

Ai, which everyone wants, is an editor, not the creator

One of the biggest surprises is the way people use chatgpt to write. Two-thirds of all writing demands do not “write to me an essay”, but “repair this sketch”, “translate this e-mail” or “make this sound smarter”.

People do not replace their words of artificial intelligence. They make their words easier.

This transfers the story of “AI as a substitute” to “AI as a tool for improvement”.

And honestly, it seems more real. Nobody wants to convey to the voice. They just want to tighten him.

Rhythm question

Scientists divided chatgpt into three buckets:

  • Asking: Obtaining advice, explanations or decision support.
  • Act: asking for tasks such as summaries or reports.
  • Expressing: Sharing personal thoughts or feelings.

Here is Kicker: The asking is half of all use, grows faster and consistently ensures greater satisfaction. People don't just want artificial intelligence Down things. They want it Think with them.

Sure, there is more “doing”: reports, sketches, results. But even there the “questioning” page is huge.

Which means the most valuable role AI is not automation, this is a magnification. This is a thought partner.

The sexual difference closed shockingly quickly

After starting ChatGPT, about 80% of active users usually had male names. Until mid -20125, this gap not only closed, but turned a bit. Women are now equally likely, if not more, they are ordinary users.

This kind of demographic change usually takes years, if not decades. The fact that it happened in two years shows how quickly AI settles in various groups, when the cases of use seem important.

And it grows faster in places you don't expect

The fastest growth is not in the Silicon Valley or Europe. It is in low and medium income countries. This reverses the usual adoption script in which rich nations follow and others.

AI becomes a leveling tool. Regardless of whether you are in San Francisco or Nairobi, the same system is available. The same tutoring. The same advice. The same help. This is the effect of democratization, which we rarely see with new technologies.

AI as a universal tool set

Remove specific tasks, and the basic activities are strikingly similar in different workplaces: decision making, problem solving and documenting information. About 81% of job talks are addressed to these foundations.

This means that artificial intelligence does not only apply to programmers, managers or marketers. It is a set of cognitive tools that connects to the core how people think and work, regardless of the field.

Education can be the Killer application

Tutoring and teaching constitute over 10% of all use. It's massive. People use chatgPT not only until the end of their home, but to learn new skills, adapt explanations or diving in a hobby.

It is difficult not to perceive this as the beginning of the new layer of education – one that is always available, cheap and personalized.

So what really happens?

Ai does not replace people. It takes on how we think and learn. It helps us ask better questions, improve our ideas and make decisions. The debate “Work vs Jobs” does not make sense. The deeper story is that AI is becoming a universal adviser, editor and teacher-more than the partner turned on in our daily knowledge.

This is a real revolution: machines do not think about us, but the machines help us think better.

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