AI continues to make its way into our daily lives, offering a wide range of solutions designed to improve productivity, creativity and communication.
To find out which tools were used most frequently over the last month, we recently conducted a survey on the TechRadar WhatsApp channel.
We received over 6,600 responses, and the results present an intriguing look at the current preferences and behaviors of AI users.
Grammatically the surprise blow
Unsurprisingly, ChatGPT emerged as the most popular AI tool among respondents, with a staggering 2,400 using it in the last 30 days. OpenAI's versatile language model recently received a major update (ChatGPT 4o) that significantly improves its capabilities, and we're still at the beginning of understanding its capabilities.
Next, 1,100 respondents said they had used Microsoft Copilot. Its good performance in the survey can be attributed to the tool's integration into Windows 11 and Microsoft Office applications. The addition of a Copilot key on the new AI PCs will only have helped here.
Google Gemini was used by 811 respondents, which is a respectable result and disappointing for Google, whose AI efforts are failing to be adopted at the same level as OpenAI's.
Grammarly turned out to be a surprise hit in the survey, as the staple for improving writing quality across platforms garnered 584 monthly users.
Interestingly, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion only got 124 and 107 users respectively. There are a number of tools that can generate artwork powered by DALL-E 3, including Copilot and the paid version of ChatGPT, which will explain some of the reasons why those numbers are lower than expected.
A notable number of respondents, 557 in total, reported using other AI tools not explicitly listed in the survey, giving a sense of the expansive and evolving landscape of AI solutions available today. On the other hand, 605 participants said they had not used any AI tools in the last 30 days, suggesting that a good portion of the population has yet to integrate AI into their daily routines.
Just to add a final note on our findings. WhatApp surveys allow respondents to give more than one answer and also provide conflicting answers (e.g. “Something else” and “I didn't use any AI tools”). However, we assume that the latter is a statistically insignificant fact.
