[raincole]

> adoption is low to nonexistent outside of programming

In the last few months, every single non-programmer friend I've met has ChatGPT installed on their phone (N>10).

Out of all the people that I know enough to ask if they have ChatGPT installed, there is only one who doesn't have it (my dad).

I don't know how many of them are paying customers though. IIRC one of them was using ChatGPT to translate academic writing so I assume he has pro.

[hermannj314]

My daughter and her friends have their own paid chatgpt. She said she uses it to help with math homework and described to me exactly why I bought a $200 TI-92 in the 90s with a CAS.

Adoption is high with young people.

[Gigachad]

I’ve been trying out locally run models on my phone. The iPhone 17 is able to run some pretty nice models, but they lack access to up to date information from the web like ChatGPT has. Wonder if some company like Kagi would offer some api to let your local model plug in and run searches.

[data-ottawa]

Kagi do but it’s fairly expensive (for my taste) and you have to email them for access.

There are other companies that provide these tools for anything supporting MCP.

[fxtentacle]

That would be perfect. Especially because Kagi could also return search results as JSON to the AI if they control both sides of the interaction.