Sam Altman on Marketer of the Month
Snippet- Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, Notes ChatGPT’s Diverse Impact. Students Use it Like an Operating System Connecting Files, Designing Prompts, And Building Workflows.
A short but unusually concrete snapshot of how ChatGPT usage differs by age, especially the description of college students treating it as an operating system and using memory for personal decisions. Worth hearing for the behavioral detail, though the generational taxonomy is explicitly an oversimplification rather than a rigorous finding.
They really do use it like an operating system. They have like, complex ways to set it up, to connect it to, like a bunch of files. And they have like, fairly complex prompts memorized in their head or, like, you know, in something where they paste in and out. And I mean, that stuff, I think is all cool and impressive. And there's this other thing where, like, they don't really make life decisions without asking, like, chatgpt what they should do. And it has like the full context on every person in their life and what they've talked about. And, you know, like, the memory thing has been a real change there. But yeah, I think it gross oversimplification, but, like, older people use ChatGPT as a Google replacement. Maybe people in their 20s and 30s use it as like a life advisor something. And then like people in college use it as an operating system.
Sam Altman describes contrasting patterns of ChatGPT use across age groups. He emphasizes that college students can treat it as an operating system by connecting files and building sophisticated prompts and workflows, while some users rely on it for advice and decisions.