The world seems to be underutilizing artificial intelligence. The number of searches for “AI” on Google just hit 100 points, reflecting the public’s enthusiasm to explore this space.
With AI dominating the headlines over the past few months since the release of ChatGPT, it’s no wonder people’s interest in AI has never been higher. In his week from April 30th to May 6th, global searches for the term “artificial intelligence” reached 100 points. This shows how curious and eager people are about this emerging technology and its applications in various fields. .
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Basically, 100 points is the peak popularity of a search term. Similarly, popularity halves when it reaches 50 points, and goes to 0 if no searches occur for that term. AI reaching his 100 points indicates that user interest in the term has reached an all-time high.
After this curiosity peaked, interest declined slightly in May, but remained remarkably high at 94 points as of June 2nd. This is in stark contrast to the past decade, when AI searches rarely exceeded his 25 points, and shows that people are interested. Now he’s four times more enthusiastic about exploring technology.
The situation changed in late November with the release of the now very popular AI tool ChatGPT. After that, interest in AI quickly skyrocketed.
But even though it was ChatGPT that sparked such a frenzy of interest in artificial intelligence technology, AI chatbots aren’t currently the most searched for AI-related term.
That honor goes to the term “Character AI”, which refers to Character.ai. It is a platform that allows users to create their own AI chatbot with customizable personalities and even based on fictional characters such as Super Mario. ChatGPT ranks 9th in the list of AI-related search terms with just 25 points.
This does not mean that Character.ai is more popular than ChatGPT. The latter was the fastest (in just two months) to reach his 100 million user base and continues to grow. Rather, it suggests that Character.ai is newer and less familiar to the general public trying to learn more about it. Character.ai also contributed to the hype last month by releasing iOS and Android apps as well. ChatGPT, on the other hand, has already established a loyal user base that goes directly to the website instead of searching on Google first.
Other top AI related queries include “ai generator”, “google ai”, “open ai”, “ai chat”, etc.
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Date first published: February 6, 2023 16:40 IST
