Sam Altman: Folks Use ChatGPT Otherwise Relying on Their Age

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says individuals use ChatGPT otherwise relying on their age.

“Gross oversimplification, however like, older individuals use ChatGPT as a Google substitute,” Altman stated at Sequoia Capital’s AI Ascent occasion.

“Perhaps individuals of their 20s and 30s use it like a life advisor, one thing,” Altman stated. “After which, like, individuals in school use it as an working system.”

Altman’s interview, which happened on Could 2, was printed to Sequoia Capital’s YouTube channel on Monday. He was responding to a query about how younger individuals use ChatGPT.

“They actually do use it like an working system. They’ve complicated methods to set it as much as join it to a bunch of recordsdata, and so they have pretty complicated prompts memorized of their head or in one thing the place they paste out and in,” Altman stated of ChatGPT’s youthful customers.

“There’s this different factor the place they do not actually make life selections with out asking ChatGPT what they need to do. It has the complete context on each individual of their life and what they’ve talked about,” Altman added.

When requested how OpenAI itself was utilizing ChatGPT, Altman stated ChatGPT “writes quite a lot of our code” however didn’t specify the precise proportion of code it generated. In October, Google CEO Sundar Pichai stated AI wrote over 25% of Google’s new code.

In February, OpenAI printed a report which stated school college students within the US had been utilizing ChatGPT “greater than some other use case, greater than some other sort of consumer.”

The report added that over one-third of individuals aged 18 to 24 within the US use ChatGPT.

The Pew Analysis Middle printed a survey in January, which stated that 26% of US youngsters aged between 13 to 17 used ChatGPT for his or her schoolwork in 2024, in comparison with 13% in 2023.

Representatives for Altman at OpenAI didn’t reply to a request for remark from Enterprise Insider.