The French are more and more hooked on generative AI | EUROtoday

79% of French individuals anxious

Users of those packages estimate they obtain a productiveness acquire of 38%. This may present meals for thought to treatment the 8.5% drop in productiveness in France since 2019, as calculated by the Banque de France. However, coaching stays an vital problem to popularize their use. In reality, 37% of customers consider they don’t have adequate information to make use of them, a proportion which reaches on common 73% throughout all the panel. When it involves most well-liked instruments, it's no shock that OpenAI's ChatGPT is by far within the lead, with 66% of customers, adopted by Google's Bard-Gemini (15%), Adobe Photoshop AI (14%) and Microsoft’s Bing Copilot (13%). In addition, 11% of customers say they use a paid model of ChatGPT at 20 euros per 30 days.

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Notable point: 44% of people who use it (and 61% of 25-34 year olds) accept the results of generative AI as they are, without modifying them, while 35% say they have difficulty doing without them. . However, 75% of users believe that these tools cannot automate more than 30% of their professional tasks. Furthermore, concerns about the risks associated with generative AI have increased. Indeed, 79% of French people aged 18 and over express concerns about the emergence of these technologies (compared to 68% in May 2023). In addition, 62% of French people and 74% of managers and upper middle professions consider that they represent a significant risk for data security, a figure increasing by 17% compared to May 2023.

Generational shock

We also see a pronounced interest among young people in the use of these technologies, with almost 70% of 18-24 year olds using them personally, compared to only 47% of 25-34 year olds and 22% of those aged 35 and over. A real generational shock… “The recent report from the artificial intelligence commission, published in March 2024, offers ideas on the major projects to be implemented to make France a leader in these technologies. The 2024 Ifop barometer for Talan highlights the urgency of intervening in the training of technologies to effectively meet the challenges that arise,” concludes Philippe Cassoulat.