According to a new report, over 40 percent of GenAI users responded that they started using it within the past six months.

The report, published by Future, is covered in this article from TechRadar. The survey found that 40% of people in the UK and 34% of people in the U.S. use generative AI either “daily” or “multiple times a day.” Not only does over one-third of the US and UK population use gen AI daily, but over 40 percent of GenAI users started to use the software in the last six months – 46% in the UK, 43% in the US.

What are they using? More than half (54%) of UK respondents say they’ve used tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, or Gemini to learn more about a specific topic, with slightly fewer (48%) in the U.S. saying the same.

Not surprisingly, people between 18 and 40 accounted for 70% of the UK’s daily users and 60% of those in the U.S. Not only that, but consumers are using generative AI for things they would have previously searched for with traditional search engines (US 55%, UK 62%).

That last trend may have been a big factor in the Google antitrust ruling that was issued yesterday by DC District Judge Amit P. Mehta, who ruled that Google must hand over its search results and some data to rival companies but does not need to break itself up by selling its Chrome web browser. Judge Mehta wrote in his ruling that the emergence of generative A.I. “changed the course of this case.”

A summary of the report from Future with more interesting findings is available here (with a link to the detailed report).

So, what do you think? Are you surprised that over 40 percent of GenAI users said they started using it within the past 6 months? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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