These days my Twitter feed is dominated by two things: a host of A.I.-generated images of the people I follow, courtesy of Lensa.ai, and screenshots of elaborate answers produced by the new, buzzy A.I. chatbot, ChatGPT, born out of research startup OpenAI. While it’s all good fun to marvel at how thoughtful and eerily humanlike the answers to various prompts plugged into ChatGPT are, such tools have massive potential to transform the way companies operate, one venture capital investor told me over coffee last week.
Brian Ascher, a partner at storied VC firm Venrock, told me he thinks “every department” of a company “eventually could be using it.” As an investor, Ascher focuses on A.I./ML (artificial intelligence and machine learning), among other things, and has already made bets on several A.I. companies, like 6sense, which focuses on A.I. for revenue teams, and Socrates.ai, which caters to HR.
