South Africa: AI-fuelled change has arrived, but are people actually using it?AI-fuelled change has come to the world, but are people actually using it?

Here is a surprise. It turns out that not very many people are using generative AI. 

I should add the critical qualifier “yet” but, given the oxygen that this new technology has sucked up over the past 18 months, I would have expected it to have embedded a little more deeply into our lives by now. But it hasn’t. 

Before presenting the stats, we need to get a bit of taxonomy out of the way. We all use AI all the time. It has been part of our daily lives for a decade or two –…