[lukan]

Depends what you count as AI (just googling makes you use the LLM summary), but also my mother who is really not tech affine loved what google lense can do, after I showed her.

Apart from my very old grandmothers, I don't know anyone not using AI.

[pests]

How many people do you know? Do you talk to your local shop keeper? Or the clerk at the gas station? How are they using AI? I'm a pretty techy person with a lot of tech friends, and I know more people not using AI (on purpose, or lack of knowledge) then do.

[GeneralMaximus]

I live in India and a surprising number of people here are using AI.

A lot of public religious imagery is very clearly AI generated, and you can find a lot of it on social media too. "I asked ChatGPT" is a common refrain at family gatherings. A lot of regular non-techie folks (local shopkeepers, the clerk at the gas station, the guy at the vegetable stand) have been editing their WhatsApp profile pictures using generative AI tools.

Some of my lawyer and journalist friends are using ChatGPT heavily, which is concerning. College students too. Bangalore is plastered with ChatGPT ads.

There's even a low-cost ChatGPT plan called ChatGPT Go you can get if you're in India (not sure if this is available in the rest of the world). It costs ₹399/mo or $4.41/mo, but it's completely free for the first year of use.

So yes, I'd say many people outside of tech circles are using AI tools. Even outside of wealthy first-world countries.

[lukan]

Hm, quite some. Like I said, it depends what you count as AI.

Just googling means you use AI nowdays.

[eru]

Whether Googling something counts as AI has more to do with the shifting definition of AI over time, then with Googling itself.

Remember, really back in the day the A* search algorithm was part of AI.

If you had asked anyone in the 1970s whether a box that given a query pinpoints the right document that answers that question (aka Google search in the early 2000s), they'd definitely would have called it AI.

[lukan]

Google gives you an AI summary, reading that means interacting with LLMs.

[pests]

Google also gives you ads. Some learn to scroll past before reading.

[SoftTalker]

I'm sort of old but not a grandmother. Not using AI.