But most of those 18% have tried it on the web interface for free. The rest of those things you mention are/were very expensive, especially at first. My dad was

But most of those 18% have tried it on the web interface for free. The rest of those things you mention are/were very expensive, especially at first. My dad was lugging home expensive workstations from his office for years before anyone in my circles could really afford a home computer. Free+Hype makes me not that impressed with the number of people who have tried ChatGPT. Smartphone ubiquity today is way more amazing to me than a lot of people giving the weird new chatbot a try. If you can come back and tell me a year from now that even 10% of adults use something like ChatGPT once a month as anything other than a search engine replacement, I will be impressed. Really, I will. When the chatbot market gets bigger than a rounding error of the smartphone/tablet market, then I will be impressed. I think they are fun. I can and do run the big models locally on my research hardware. People in my lab are doing some pretty neat things with LLMs and other tools in the current hype cycle. I personally like them. But there is massive, so-far-unwarranted hype.