[mattlondon]

I am not convinced that many people outside of tech circles knows about ChatGPT. "AI" sure, but ChatGPT I am unconvinced. Either way, I am pretty confident Google will "win" long term since Gemini will be the AI built into search, YouTube, android, Gmail, chrome, etc etc in the consumer side. It's going to be there when the billions of people are using Google products so people will just use it there. The average person won't go out of their way to open a separate app/site with a lower-performing (as of today) and standalone/siloed/isolated AI that doesn't have access to their data/apps just because they recognise the name.

[mjamesaustin]

My sister graduated college last summer. She said every single person she knew was using ChatGPT to write essays within a week of its initial release.

I would argue it's pretty well-known outside of tech circles.

[Nullabillity]

That's exactly what a plagiarist would say to justify it to themself.

[SR2Z]

Plagarism is kind of the default nowadays in college though (I did not plagarize, but was a TA who caught a lot of it)

[ketzo]

The linked article can tell you that the ChatGPT app has been downloaded more than 600M times, so approx 1 in 13 humans has actually downloaded ChatGPT to their phone already, let alone heard about it.

They have WAUs in the 300m ballpark — average people already are going out of their way to open a standalone AI.

[matthewdgreen]

What are there DAUs? I occasionally open up Claude or ChatGPT just to ask a random question, maybe even once a week. But I’m incredibly uninvested in either brand. I use Google hundreds of times every day.

[staticman2]

Does "Global app installs" the term used at the link, mean installs by unique human beings the way you are using it?

[coliveira]

You're incorrect, people nowadays equate AI with ChatGPT. Google may have AI in its results, but people will never separate the two products. However, with ChatGPT, it is synonymous with AI chat in the mind of most people.

[rs186]

Where does your confidence come from? Do you have any evidence to prove this?

If you paid the slightest attention to social media, news, TikTok or just talked to regular people, you would know ChatGPT is a much much bigger brand name than Gemini. Uber driver told me how he used ChatGPT to help the other day job he had.

[annodomini2019]

ChatGPT is the 7th most visited website in the world...

[jeromegv]

> I am not convinced that many people outside of tech circles

In Canada, I have had countless conversations with people outside of tech circles (mostly in their 30s) where THEY naturally bring up ChatGPT. It's wild how popular it got very quickly for all kind of use cases.

[lone_onion]

https://apps.apple.com/us/charts/iphone

'nuff said?

(ChatGPT is #2 in the free apps list)