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A Look at College Student ChatGPT Adoption in the US‬ a paper by OpenAI.

 

‭ More‬‭ than‬‭ any‬‭ other‬‭ use‬‭ case,‬‭ more‬‭ than‬‭ any‬‭ other‬‭ kind‬‭ of‬‭ user,‬‭ college-aged‬‭ young‬‭ adults‬‭ in‬‭ the‬‭ US‬ are‬‭ embracing‬‭ ChatGPT,‬‭ and‬‭ they’re‬‭ doing‬‭ so‬‭ to‬‭ learn.‬‭

 

Over‬‭ one-third‬‭ of‬‭ 18-to‬‭ 24-year-olds‬‭ in‬‭ the‬‭ US‬ use‬‭ ChatGPT,‬‭ and‬‭ among‬‭ these‬‭ users,‬‭ over‬‭ one-quarter‬‭ of‬‭ their‬‭ messages‬‭ are‬‭ about‬‭ learning,‬‭ tutoring,‬
‭ and school work, according to OpenAI user data.‬

 

openai-edu-ai-ready-workforce

 

FYI, the college building in the image was AI generated, but not able to actually create legible text on the building’s front; an odd artifact of LLMs and image generation. Some models can actually create English characters and put them in the right places. Not the model they used for this paper though.

Kudos to Gary for the link who points out OpenAI conflates college age youth with college attending youth, and they are notably NOT the same demographic.