OpenAI says ChatGPT saves the average worker up to an hour each day - here's how

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• A study from OpenAI aimed to assess the business impacts of AI. 
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The use of AI is saving workers an average of 40 minutes to one hour of work per day, according to a new report from OpenAI.

The report, published Monday and titled "The state of enterprise AI," focused on the use of ChatGPT Enterprise across a range of industries, and homed in on the roles and tasks benefiting most from the technology. 

It arrives just a little over one week after ChatGPT's third birthday, and during a time of growing competition among tech firms to corner the market for business customers, which OpenAI describes in the report as ...