by JAURES YIP
- Business leaders are using AI tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT as the sector booms.
- Some have tried AI on the job, while others have played with it to write raps and translate poetry.
- Here’s how nine executives from companies like Meta, Google, and Microsoft deploy the technology.
Ever since OpenAI launched ChatGPT in November 2023, everyone’s been talking about — and trying out — the hot new tech in their personal and professional lives.
That includes some of the world’s most influential business leaders.
Many companies aside from OpenAI have released generative AI products with human-like capabilities to cash in on the hype. Users have been turning to the technology to save time and reach their goals.
Some workers have used ChatGPT to generate lesson plans, produce marketing materials, and write legal briefs. Others have turned to chatbots to help them lose weight, do homework, and plan vacations. Some even claimed they made money with AI.
And interest has also permeated the C-suite, with leaders just as keen to make the technology work for them. From translating poetry to creating rap songs, here’s how executives from Meta, Google, Microsoft, and other major companies have personally used AI.
- A teacher’s students ChatGPT for a simple introductory assignment in an ethics and technology class.
- Professor Megan Fritts shared her concerns on X, sparking debate on AI’s role in education.
- Educators are divided on AI’s impact, with some feeling it undermines critical thinking skills.
Professor Megan Fritts’ first assignment to her students was what she considered an easy A: “Briefly introduce yourself and say what you’re hoping to get out of this class.”
Yet many of the students enrolled in her Ethics and Technology course decided to introduce themselves with ChatGPT.
“They all owned up to it, to their credit,” Fritts told Business Insider. “But it was just really surprising to me that — what was supposed to be a kind of freebie in terms of assignments — even that they felt compelled to generate with an LLM.”
When Fritts, an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, took her concern to X, formerly Twitter, in a tweet that has now garnered 3.5 million views, some replies argued that students would obviously combat “busywork” assignments with similarly low-effort AI-generated answers.
However, Fritts said that the assignment was not only to help students get acquainted with using the online Blackboard discussion board feature, but she was also “genuinely curious” about the introductory question.
“A lot of students who take philosophy classes, especially if they’re not majors, don’t really know what philosophy is,” she said. “So I like to get an idea of what their expectations are so I can know how to respond to them.”
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