Summary: There are many use cases for generative AI, spanning a vast number of areas of domestic and work life. Looking through thousands of comments on sites such as Reddit and Quora, the author’s team found that the use of this technology is as wide-ranging as the problems we encounter in our lives. The 100 categories they identified can be divided into six top-level themes, which give an immediate sense of what generative AI is being used for: Technical Assistance & Troubleshooting (23%), Content Creation & Editing (22%), Personal & Professional Support (17%), Learning & Education (15%), Creativity & Recreation (13%), Research, Analysis & Decision Making (10%).
TL;DR: fucking around with it.
Yes, it sure is a transformative paradigmatic shift in, uh, throwing money down a well.
wewbull@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Most people use it as a search engine now that Google is shit.
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
For real. I’ve been using Google since 2000 and it now costs me substantially more cognitive load to find things than if I just ask a LLM.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I can’t trust the output of an LLM but at least you can ask it to cite its sources so you can get the page that helped it come to that conclusion