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A new study suggests that only a handful of people are using AI-powered tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini regularly. Researchers from the Reuters Institute and Oxford University surveyed around 12,000 people and noted that young people between 18 and 24 of age were most eager to use the new technology.
According to an online questionnaire offered in Argentina, Denmark, France, Japan, the USA and the UK, only two per cent of British people who participated in the survey say they use AI-powered tools on a daily basis.
The study, which focused on generative AI tools like ChatGPT suggests that optimists say the new technology will add to economic growth and help invent new life-saving drugs while pessimists suggest AI is a threat to human existence. Also, most people remained pessimistic when asked if AI will make their lives better or worse.
In a statement to the BBC, the research’s lead author Dr Richard Fletcher said that there was a “mismatch” between the “hype” about AI and the “public interest” in the technology. “People are generally optimistic about the use of generative AI in science and healthcare, but more wary about it being used in news and journalism, and worried about the effect it might have on job security”, he added.
Fletcher also said that a huge chunk of the general population is not interested in AI and that 30 per cent of the participants surveyed living in the United Kingdom said they haven’t heard of AI tools like ChatGPT.
While AI has been around for a while now, the technology was popularised recently by tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a chatbot takes text and images as input and can respond to your queries in a natural human-like manner.
