Using AI as an Operating System

While I was watching Sam Altman’s conversation at AI Ascent, the part about using AI as an Operating System really stuck with me (starts at 14:56). Here’s the transcript with a few edits for better readability.

[Young people] really do use it like an Operating System. They have 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.

They don’t really make life decisions without asking ChatGPT what they should do. And it has the full context on every person in their life and what they’ve talked about.

I think it is a gross oversimplification, but older people use ChatGPT as a Google replacement. Maybe people in their 20s and 30s use it as like a life advisor, and then people in college use it as an Operating System.

After that, the question “How can I use AI as an Operating System?” keeps popping into my head.