OpenAI Study Reveals Top 3 Uses of ChatGPT
ChatGPT remains one of the world’s most widely used AI chatbots , attracting hundreds of millions of users every week. While its coding and reasoning skills often grab headlines, a new large-scale study by OpenAI’s Economic Research team —conducted with Harvard economist David Deming—reveals that coding isn’t even among the top three reasons people use ChatGPT . ChatGPT The research, which analysed 1.5 million conversations in a privacy-preserving way, found that most interactions fall into three main categories: Asking, Doing, and Expressing . Asking (49%) – Nearly half of all messages are users seeking advice, clarifications, or answers to information queries. OpenAI says people value ChatGPT most as a digital advisor . Doing (40%) – A significant share of conversations involve task completion, such as drafting emails, preparing documents, planning, or programming. Writing tasks dominate this category, while coding accounts for only a small fraction. Expressing (11%) – ...