Users will flood back in the next few week when school comes back. I’d like to see another breakdown in December.
Higher ed, primary ed, and homework were all subcategories ChatGPT classified sessions into, and together, these make up ~10% of all use cases. That’s not enough to account for the ~29% decline in traffic from April/May to July, and thus, I think we can put a nail in the coffin of Theory B.
It’s addressed in the article. First, use started to decline in April, before school was out. Second, only 23 percent of prompts were related to education, which includes both homework type prompts, and personal/professional knowledge seeking. Only about 10 percent was strictly homework. So school work isn’t a huge slice of ChatGPTs use.
Combine that with schools cracking down on kids using ChatGPT (in classroom assignments and tests, etc), and I don’t think your going to see a major bounce back in traffic when school starts. Maybe a little.
I’m starting to think generative AI might be a bit of a fad. Personally I was very excited about it and used ChatGPT, Bing, and Bard all the time. But over time I realized they just weren’t very good, inaccurate answers, bland writing, just not much help to me, a non programmer. I still use them, but now it’s maybe once a day or less, not all day like I used to. Generative AI seems more like a tool that is helpful in some limited cases, not the major transformation it felt like early in the year. Who knows, maybe they’ll get better and more useful.
Also, not super related, but I saw a static the other day that only about a third of the US has even tried ChatGPT. It feels like a huge thing to us tech nerdy people, but your average person hasn’t bothered to even try it out.
I love using it while programming but I almost never use it besides that. Not even sure what I would use it for besides that on a day to day basis.
Recently, I used it for book/Author recommendations. At first I also used it for coding, but now I just ask it to explain concepts to me (what’s the difference between… / what are some ways to approach…)
Basically how non-tech people thought search engines worked at the beginning of this century.
I also use it for programming and today is the first day that I experienced the degradation that everyone has been talking about. It was spitting out the same code over and over, saying it was changing it, and then it slowed to a crawl and barely responded. Most of its answers were wrong and unhelpful. I have really enjoyed using it instead of stackoverflow for a few months now, so I hope this isn’t something that’s going to continue.
As for other uses, my wife and I used it to find a movie to watch a few days ago. We described the type of movie we wanted to see and asked it to recommend 10. We picked one and it was exactly what we wanted to watch. That was really neat.
I used to to write a resume and cover letter for me, which I then punched up. I figure that since companies are using AI to review resumes, I should use one to write one.
Sometimes I use it for laughs. I usually use it as a search engine one steroids when I cant find the answer to a problem. Not having data past 2021 is a huge limiting factor for real producity though.
I know it’s not popular, but Bing Chat works surprisingly well if you need a GPT response that can hit the Internet. It’s not perfect but anytime I need current information I generally use it and it’s worked pretty well for me!
When Im feeling blue I ask it to say nice things about me.
I write a lot of emails for work, but I’m not the most eloquent writer, so I get wordy.
I sometimes feed my email into chatgpt and ask it rewrite it to be more concise, but remain in a friendly but professional tone. Boom, done.
Oof. I’ve tried it with a few Powershell things and it has recommended cmdlets that don’t exist, parameters that don’t exist, or the wrong usage of cmdlets.
Have you tried 3.5 or 4?
I haven’t had many issues in 4. Occasionally it does what you’re saying and I just say “bro, that doesn’t exist” and it’s like “oh, my bad, here you go.” And gives me something that works.
I used gpt4 for terraform and it was kind of all over the place in terms of fully deprecated methods. It felt like a nice jumping off point but honestly probably would’ve been less work to just write it up from the docs in the first place.
I can definitely see how it could help someone fumble through it and come up with something working without knowing what to look for though.
Was also having weird issues with it truncating outputs and needing to split it, but even telling it to split would cause it to kind of stall.
It’s really limited to basic, junior level programming assistance, and even then it’s not 100% reliable. Any time I’ve tried asking it something more advanced it takes a lot of coaxing to get it to output reasonable code. But it’s helpful for boilerplating basic code sometimes.
Well, if they would not nerf it maybe it woyld not go so much down
I used it today and the answer gave me was right, but the explanation for how it got there was so ridiculously bad.
It’s abysmal at this point… Whatever they did to it, the results are now awful and far more inaccurate than they were a few months back.
Idk man I’ve been having a blast with the API and gpt4. Once I get it workin you’d basically get access to gpt4 for pennys. Plus if you’re real whacky and pay for a per token subscription from elevenlabs you’ll have a voice assistant too
Who are these people who have datos installed and opted in to the survey their net usage?
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Is there any chance that this is fallout from the Reddit API changes? Lots of people were training LLMs using Reddit. If you can’t do that anymore, then that would cause a decrease in use. Right?
That was way too recent. And it wouldn’t affect the users of GPT directly, only the training, which wasn’t using super-recent data to begin with anyway.
