ChatGPT-Maker’s CEO Sam Altman just disclosed an eye-opening revelation in the Wall Street Journal: Most of the people using ChatGPT are students.
Given that 400 million people now visit the ChatGPT Web site every week, that means approximately 300-350 million of the people using ChatGPT are students (most).
The takeaway: The statistic explains that while ChatGPT can reduce writing time for simple tasks like email by as much as 90% or more, students are the people who have picked-up and run with that realization – not business pros.
That’s a problem for the lion’s share of business people who ‘get’ that AI writing is not simply coming – it’s here – but have yet to add AI to their toolbox.
Essentially: Colleges in the U.S. alone release 4 million new graduates each year into the U.S. workforce.
And you can bet that since 2023 — when ChatGPT became a force to be reckoned with across the globe — most U.S. college graduates walked into their first jobs already knowing how to automate their business writing with AI.
Something tells me their older brothers and sisters have gotten the memo, too.
In other news and analysis on AI writing:
*ChatGPT-Maker Experimenting With Turbo-Charged Creative Writer: OpenAI is currently experimenting with a new AI chatbot it believes produces its best, automated creative writing yet.
Observes OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: “This is the first time I have been really struck by something written by AI.
“It got the vibe of metafiction so right.”
So far, OpenAI has no plans to release the experimental AI writer to the public.
*Google Releases ‘Nearly as Good AI’ That Runs on a Single Chip: Google has released a new family of AI engines that are nearly as good as bleeding edge AI — but are able to run on a single chip.
The theory: By offering somewhat less than state-of-the-art performance, the stripped-down AI will not need a series of expensive chips to produce results.
Instead, the AI can run locally on a desktop, laptop, smartphone or similar hardware – representing major cost savings as compared to going to the cloud for computations.
*New Chinese AI Agent Takes On ChatGPT-Maker: A new, experimental AI agent – dubbed Manus – has gone viral, amazing writers and others with its ability to perform independent, automated tasks on a computer.
The new AI competes directly with a similar AI agent – Operator – which is offered by OpenAI under its $200/month ChatGPT Pro subscription.
Theoretically, writers using the agent-creating software will be able to:
~Automatically research an article on the Web
~Scout for quotes to go along with that research from blogs and press releases
~Auto-write the article in a preferred writing style
~SEO-optimize the article for easy discovery by search engines
~Periodically research the Web for new developments in
the article’s story
~Continually re-rewrite the article as new developments in the article’s story occur
*Local News Media Using AI to Monitor Public Meetings: Nonprofit education news service Chalkbeat is currently using AI to monitor public meetings in about 80 school districts across 30 states.
The tech, dubbed LocalLens, listens-in on the public meetings, then uses AI to transcribe, summarize and archive what’s said.
Observes Eric Gorski, a managing editor at Chalkbeat: “We are going to be in the rooms where we need to be, where the big decisions are being made, but we can’t be everywhere all the time.”
“The summaries are springboards for more reporting. It’s not a replacement for coverage. And we’re not trusting AI to get these things right. It’s more like a news tip.”
Back in the day, when I got my first job in journalism, covering local school district and local government meetings used to be the sole purview of human beings.
And one of those human beings happened to be me.
*Small Business Software Adds AI-Written Reports: Pipedrive, a maker of customer relationship management software, has made it easier for salespeople to auto-generate reports using AI.
Observes Viktoria Ruubel, CPO, Pipedrive: “With AI-powered report creation, sales teams can now shift their focus to what truly matters – analyzing trends, identifying opportunities and making informed decisions within seconds.”
Pipedrive took special care to ensure the reports can be easily generated by natural language prompts.
Plus, the new AI report-writer also comes with 14, prefabricated prompts to generate commonly needed reports.
*AI Fiction Writer Out With an Upgrade: AI creative writing pioneer Sudowrite has released a new update that promises to deliver prose that sounds more original – and eschews clichés.
Dubbed Muse, the new module’s emphasis on originality was engineered in collaboration with hundreds of authors, according to Sudowrite founder James Yu.
Sudowrite currently runs on a number of AI engines, including ChatGPT, Claude and DeepSeek.
*AI-Powered Search Engines Wrong 60% of the Time: AI companies looking to steal Google’s thunder by branching out into search have been hit with a hard dose of reality.
On average, the citations they use to certify their search results to users are wrong more than 60% of the time, according to a new study from the Tow Center – although some tools performed better than others.
Observes writer Andrew Deck: “Perplexity, which brands itself as a tool for research, had the lowest failure rate, answering incorrectly 37% of the time.
“Meanwhile, Grok-3 Search had the highest failure rate at 94%.”
*Microsoft Puts More Daylight Between Itself and ChatGPT-Maker: Microsoft and OpenAI – once the dynamic duo when it came to all things AI – continue to drift apart.
Specifically, Microsoft says its developing in-house AI engines – dubbed MAI — being designed to compete directly with the AI engines that power ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok.
The news comes on the heels of a report that ChatGPT-maker OpenAI just inked a $11.9 billion dollar deal with CoreWeave, which will provide servers and other infrastructure to help drive OpenAI’s software.
Used to be, Microsoft was the overwhelming, go-to trading partner for such infrastructure services.
*AI BIG PICTURE: AI and Our Future: ChatGPT Competitor Anthropic’s View: This one-hour video from the Council on Foreign Relations offers one of the most lucid perspectives on the anticipated impact of AI in recent memory.
It features an interview with Dario Amodei, CEO, Anthropic – the maker of Claude, a fierce competitor to market-leader ChatGPT.
Not to be missed.
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–Joe Dysart is editor of RobotWritersAI.com and a tech journalist with 20+ years experience. His work has appeared in 150+ publications, including The New York Times and the Financial Times of London.
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