🤖 What do people actually use ChatGPT for? OpenAI provides some numbers. – OpenAI’s first usage study reveals ChatGPT’s massive growth, demographic shifts, and main use cases. // More concise list of uses here. //

And, more from El Reg, including the conclusion from the paper:

The paper concludes “users currently appear to derive value from using ChatGPT as an advisor or research assistant, not just a technology that performs job tasks directly” and that the bot “likely improves worker output by providing decision support, which is especially important in knowledge-intensive jobs where productivity is increasing in the quality of decision-making.”

Here is the actual study.