OpenAI Investor’s Final Inquiry to ChatGPT Discussed

OpenAI has gained recognition in the industry for creating ChatGPT, and now every major tech company desires to have a share of this AI chatbot, including Microsoft, which reportedly invested $10 billion in OpenAI. However, numerous experienced tech professionals closely monitor OpenAI’s progress, including an investor in the company who was recently questioned about the most recent query he posed to ChatGPT.

Indian-American billionaire Vinod Khosla spoke via video conference at the MoneyControl Startup Conclave 2023 about the last question he asked ChatGPT as OpenAI transitioned from a non-profit organization to a private entity in 2019.

He was quoted as saying that he uses ChatGPT a lot and mostly wanted help from the AI chatbot for his gardening interests. “I use ChatGPT a lot. I happen to have very esoteric questions about my gardens, so the last question was based on my gardening habits,” the billionaire businessman revealed. “I love gardening,” Khosla said during the event.

His company, Khosla Ventures, is said to be one of OpenAI’s leading investors, which also includes Microsoft and the Reid Hoffman Foundation, according to the report. But it seems the bet to invest in an AI company wasn’t always seen as the right bet.

The OpenAI investor had a word of caution for anyone looking to invest in foundational models like OpenAI. “We had bet on OpenAI a few years ago, when everyone called it a ‘dumb investment.'” The US is entering a new development environment with large applications based on the language model (LLM), he said.

Khosla also shared his experience working with OpenAI and where he sees AI heading in the future. His company’s investment in OpenAI had definitely paid off, but with new language models coming in, the market is likely to become heavily saturated with AI technology so that the industry becomes a largely app-based ecosystem.