{"id":787980,"date":"2024-08-26T10:05:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T08:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=787980"},"modified":"2024-08-26T10:13:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T08:13:47","slug":"south-africa-ranks-as-one-of-the-biggest-users-of-chatgpt-and-ai-globally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/787980\/south-africa-ranks-as-one-of-the-biggest-users-of-chatgpt-and-ai-globally\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa ranks as one of the biggest users of ChatGPT and AI globally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

South Africa ranks among the top 10 countries in the world for survey respondents who admit to using Artificial Intelligence (AI), ChatGPT in particular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is outlined in Boston Consulting Group\u2019s CCI Global Consumer Sentiment Survey, which sought to decipher how knowledgeable the public is about the monumental rise of AI (looking at Generative AI), and their subsequent feelings towards it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s been almost two full years since OpenAI released ChatGPT, helping kickstart the generative AI revolution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It took Spotify some 150 days to garner a million users. Instagram, about 75 days. ChatGPT? Just five days,” said the report’s researchers, Nivedita Balaji,\u00a0Aparna Bharadwaj,\u00a0Jessica Apotheker, and\u00a0Megan Moore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report outlines that consumers generally have a nuanced understanding of AI\u2014”far more than business leaders give them credit,” said Bharadwaj.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking at the countries surveyed, India has the highest share (45%) of people using ChatGPT, which could be partly due to the country\u2019s large number of IT jobs where GenAI could be seen as a valuable asset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rank<\/th>Country<\/th>% Who Actively Use ChatGPT<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
1<\/td>India<\/td>45<\/td><\/tr>
2<\/td>Morocco<\/td>38<\/td><\/tr>
3<\/td>UAE<\/td>34<\/td><\/tr>
4<\/td>Argentina<\/td>32<\/td><\/tr>
5<\/td>Brazil<\/td>32<\/td><\/tr>
6<\/td>Indonesia<\/td>32<\/td><\/tr>
7<\/td>South Africa<\/td>31<\/td><\/tr>
8<\/td>Philippines<\/td>28<\/td><\/tr>
9<\/td>Sweden<\/td>27<\/td><\/tr>
10<\/td>South Korea<\/td>26<\/td><\/tr>
11<\/td>T\u00fcrkiye<\/td>23<\/td><\/tr>
12<\/td>USA<\/td>23<\/td><\/tr>
13<\/td>Australia<\/td>22<\/td><\/tr>
14<\/td>Mexico<\/td>22<\/td><\/tr>
15<\/td>UK<\/td>22<\/td><\/tr>
16<\/td>Japan<\/td>19<\/td><\/tr>
17<\/td>China<\/td>18<\/td><\/tr>
18<\/td>France<\/td>18<\/td><\/tr>
19<\/td>Germany<\/td>18<\/td><\/tr>
20<\/td>Saudi Arabia<\/td>18<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>
Source: BCG Global Consumer Sentiment Survey. Note – for developing countries, the survey only really focused on “more affluent” consumers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, the survey found that consumers’ awareness of ChatGPT “is significantly higher than expected.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The countries with the highest prevalence of people who are aware of of ChatGPT is India (93%) and the United Arab Emirates (91%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Africa’s sits at 80%.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The report hypothesizes that individuals are embracing various AI tools in numerous ways to fulfil unaddressed needs, valuing the “three Cs” that AI brings: <\/p>\n\n\n\n