Christopher Mims

The one that is best for you often is the one that you are already devoting the most time to, and that's because of context.

These AIs become a lot more useful when they just know more about you, what it is you want to do, what your preferences are.

Hi, Mike.

Thank you for having me.

Roughly, more than half of people are using it regularly in work and in their just regular day-to-day life.

But an equal proportion are concerned that it's going to be worse for humanity on balance than it's going to be a boon.

People are still mostly using AI as an answer engine.

So I think this is one reason ChatGPT is the Kleenex for the Xerox of the field.

You say AI, that's the first thing people think of.

Obviously, Google has made it available by default in their search results.

So people are mostly treating it as an oracle, a source of truth.

But you also see a lot of folks kind of poking at it

as a reasoning engine.

So they'll say, you know, what do you think of X?

Is this image a fake image?

For example, is this image an AI generated image?

You know, or increasingly they will say, here's my tax return.

You know, where are some areas I could save money?

Or I want an alternative to QuickBooks.

Help me generate a spreadsheet, right, to run my life or my finances.