We love to pigeonhole generations, don’t we? But when it comes to AI, it’s not just one generation. More and more of us are using AI today, and interestingly, Gartner refers to 2024  in one of its latest reports “Living With the Year Everything Changed,” where it talks about how Generative AI is making people more powerful personally and professionally

Although Generation Alpha (currently all those born after 2012) has been nicknamed the AI Generation, because they will grow up using AI like the generation before them uses social media, most generations are using AI more and more frequently.

Despite the fact that ChatGPT was only launched in November 2022, today, most generations are using AI directly or indirectly.

Baby Boomers are using AI for health monitoring and managing retirement plans. Gen X leverages AI for work automation and enhancing productivity. Millennials use AI for career growth, content creation, and managing their personal finances. Gen Z embraces AI for education, social media enhancement, and gaming experiences. And as I’ve said despite their young age Gen Alpha, are seeing AI as a natural part of their daily lives from learning tools to interactive toys.

There are news reports every day about how e use AI in 2024, for example an article published today by the BBC talks about how students are using AI to help them pass exams. They talked to University of Reading researchers who created 33 fictitious students and then used ChatGPT to generate answers to module exams for an undergraduate psychology degree at the institution. They said the AI students’ results were half a grade boundary higher on average than those of their real-life counterparts. And the AI essays “verged on being undetectable,” with 94% not raising concerns with markers.

Making assumptions about generations and their use of AI is a mistake. After all, aren’t we all a part of the AI generation? Oh and by the way AI didn’t write this article but it did come up with the image for me!

How do you use AI?