9 AI hacks that Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang, and other business leaders use

The CEO of the chip company that makes highly coveted GPUs to power AI models uses the AI-powered question-and-answer search engine for research, he told Wired in February this year.

In the interview, he gave an example of how Perplexity can be used to learn about recent advancements in computer-aided drug discovery.

“You want to frame the overall topic so that you could have a framework,” Huang told Wired. “From that framework, you could ask more and more specific questions.”

“I really love that about these large language models,” he said.

The CEO said he uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT as well.

Still, Su doesn’t think Microsoft’s AI assistant is perfect.

“It doesn’t write my emails so well,” the CEO of Nvidia competitor AMD said during her SXSW keynote in March 2024. “I don’t use it for that.”

Microsoft has integrated Copilot into its suite of office products, including PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.

Nadella said ChatGPT helps him comprehend complicated texts from philosophers like Martin Heidegger.

“I remember my father trying to read Heidegger in his forties and struggling with it, and I have attempted it a thousand times and failed,” the CEO said on a June 2023 episode of Freakonomics Radio. “But I must say going and asking ChatGPT or Bing chat to summarize Heidegger is the best way to read Heidegger.”

He was also impressed by the AI chatbot’s ability to translate poetry. He said his favorite prompt is asking ChatGPT to translate Rumi from Urdu into English.

“The most interesting thing about it is that it captures the depth of poetry,” Nadella said on the podcast. “It somehow finds, in that latent space, meaning that’s beyond just the words and the translation. That I find is just phenomenal.”

“I wrote what I wanted to say to her as a speech, entered it into ChatGPT, said, ‘Do rap lyrics for it,’ it did, and then entered it into a music AI,” the OpenAI investor posted on X, formerly Twitter, in October 2023.

“So I was able to blare it over the speakers, a personal rap song from me,” Khosla added. “It extended my capability. It meant a lot to me.”

He’s the founder of Khosla Ventures, a VC investing in startups in AI, clean technology, and biomedicine, among other sectors.

In August 2023, Altman told Bloomberg that ChatGPT was a “life saver” for translation purposes during his world tour, where he discussed the future of AI. Over three months, he visited countries like Israel, Jordan, Qatar, the UAE, India, and South Korea.

The face behind ChatGPT said his creation helps him “write faster” and “think more.”

“I see the path towards, like, this being my super assistant for all of my cognitive work,” he told Bloomberg.

In an episode of the New York Times’ tech podcast “Hard Fork,” Pichai said he asked LaMDA, one of the search giant’s early conversational AI models, to pretend it was the planet Pluto to test its capabilities.

During one conversation, LaMDA told Pichai and his son that Pluto is “really lonely” because it’s so far out in space.

“I felt sad at that point talking to it,” the CEO said on the March 2023 episode of the podcast.

He also asked LaMDA what he should do for his father’s 80th birthday. In response, the model suggested that he make a scrapbook.

“It’s not that it’s profound, but it says things and kind of sparks the imagination,” he told the NYT when describing the prompt.

Google unveiled Gemini, its latest language model that could generate text and photos using prompts, in December 2023.

The chairperson of Berkshire Hathaway seemed to be satisfied with the output.

“Two seconds later, you know, it comes out” and “rhymes and does all these wonderful things,” Buffet told CNBC on April 2023 regarding the song.

While the billionaire said he sees the potential for ChatGPT to save time, he was skeptical about whether it could positively impact society.

“I think this is extraordinary, but I don’t know if it’s beneficial,” he told CNBC.

Cook didn’t specify how he uses the AI chatbot. He did, however, say that he sees its potential after trying it out.

“I’m excited about it,” he told CNBC in a June 2023 interview. “I think there’s some unique applications for it and you can bet that it’s something that we’re looking at closely.”

Apple appears to be lagging behind some other Big Tech players on the AI front. The iPhone maker is expected to discuss its AI projects during its June developer conference.

Back in 2016, Jarvis controlled Zuckerberg’s house’s lights, appliances, temperature, music, and security systems, Zuckerberg wrote in a blog post. The CEO also said the AI assistant interacted with his phone and computer and could learn new words and concepts.

Meta rolled out Llama-2, its large language model equivalent to OpenAI’s GPT, in July 2023 to select users. Since then, the company has released AI-powered Ray-Ban Smart Glasses and AI chatbots with celebrity personas. Llama-3, its most advanced model, is still in the works.