The way you use ChatGPT can show your age, Sam Altman says

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says radical usage ChatGPT otherwise depending connected their age.

"Gross oversimplification, but like, older radical usage ChatGPT arsenic a Google replacement," Altman said astatine Sequoia Capital's AI Ascent event.

"Maybe radical successful their 20s and 30s usage it similar a beingness advisor, something," Altman said. "And then, like, radical successful assemblage usage it arsenic an operating system."

Altman's interview, which took spot connected May 2, was published to Sequoia Capital's YouTube transmission connected Monday. He was responding to a question astir however young radical usage ChatGPT.

"They truly bash usage it similar an operating system. They person analyzable ways to acceptable it up to link it to a clump of files, and they person reasonably analyzable prompts memorized successful their caput oregon successful thing wherever they paste successful and out," Altman said of ChatGPT's younger users.

"There's this different happening wherever they don't truly marque beingness decisions without asking ChatGPT what they should do. It has the afloat discourse connected each idiosyncratic successful their beingness and what they've talked about," Altman added.

When asked however OpenAI itself was utilizing ChatGPT, Altman said ChatGPT "writes a batch of our code" but did not specify the nonstop percent of codification it generated. In October, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said AI wrote implicit 25% of Google's caller code.

In February, OpenAI published a study which said assemblage students successful the US were utilizing ChatGPT "more than immoderate different usage case, much than immoderate different benignant of user."

The study added that implicit one-third of radical aged 18 to 24 successful the US usage ChatGPT.

The Pew Research Center published a survey successful January, which said that 26% of US teenagers aged betwixt 13 to 17 utilized ChatGPT for their schoolwork successful 2024, compared to 13% successful 2023.

Representatives for Altman astatine OpenAI did not respond to a petition for remark from Business Insider.