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How People Are Really Using GenAI (hbr.org)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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%).

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

In no particular order

Learning how to bake
Search engine
Re-writing documentation for work
Reading up on random topics
Fucking around
Looking up old timey technical words that some of my customer's specs are written in
Homework help for my kids
Getting it to attack my ideas before I announce them at work so I can anticipate what I am up against