GPT

13 statements across 9 episodes · 7 bullish · 4 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Jan 9, 2023 by Marc Andreessen · said 53 times in 27 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Everything said about GPT, oldest first

Jan 9, 2023 bullish
Prediction Held up
Andreessen: Patients presenting GPT query results will force doctors to adopt AI
“And by the way, patients using GPT, if it hasn't started, it's going to start imminently. So, so, so, so the patients are going to show up with the results of GPT queries, and the doctors are going to have to respond to that, and so they're going to end up bei…”
Marc Andreessen Jan 9, 2023 ▶ 45:31 Expert AI as a Healthcare Superpower
Jan 9, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: GPT's contradictory outputs prove it lacks self-awareness
“Here's my favorite example for why I know GPT is not self-aware. If you ask it if it's self-aware, and you ask it to elaborate on how it became self-aware, it will happily tell you. And by the way, if you ask it if, well, how it's going to feel if you turn it …”
Marc Andreessen Jan 9, 2023 ▶ 12:15 Expert AI as a Healthcare Superpower
Jan 9, 2023 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Andreessen: GPT effectively drafts medical insurance reimbursement letters
“It turns out GPT is really good at writing those letters.”
Marc Andreessen Jan 9, 2023 ▶ 51:13 Expert AI as a Healthcare Superpower
Jan 9, 2023 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: Assigning and grading student essays is no longer viable due to AI
“GPT can auto-generate, like, you know, essays, right? And so student essays. And so it's like, okay, the grading method of assigning an essay and grading the result, like, is probably not going to work anymore.”
Marc Andreessen Jan 9, 2023 ▶ 13:59 Expert AI as a Healthcare Superpower
Mar 1, 2023 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
DoNotPay used GPT to build a 1.4M row hospital price database
“What we've done is we've had GPT scrape all of these websites Create a master Excel of 1.4 million rows because they don't name these treatments properly. They just put obscure codes and standardize it among all hospitals in the US.”
Joshua Browder Mar 1, 2023 ▶ 11:10 The Robot Lawyer Resistance with Joshua Browder of DoNotPay
Jun 10, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Andreessen: Around 100 million people actively use generative AI applications
“And then there's a bottoms up phenomenon, which is it's already long, like people are already experiencing it, right? It's like in the form of, like, GPT and Midjourney and all these other new kind of amazing AI apps that are kind of running wild online. And s…”
Marc Andreessen Jun 10, 2023 ▶ 1:15 AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado
Sep 25, 2023 positive
Insight
Koller: Insitro's biological AI model is GPT for cells
“Look, it's just like GPT, but for cells.”
Daphne Koller Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 8:02 Digital Biology with insitro's Daphne Koller
Oct 21, 2023 negative
Opinion
Horowitz: Google missed OpenAI's breakthrough because it became big and slow
“The older and larger they get, The less adaptive they become. And we like, we've seen this with Google who invented, you know, most of the new AI technology and then was a little bit of sleep at the wheel. You know, when open AI released GPT They missed it jus…”
Ben Horowitz Oct 21, 2023 ▶ 31:30 Why It's Time to Be A Techno-Optimist
Dec 28, 2023 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mensch: Fine-tuned Mistral 7B matches GPT performance on specific enterprise tasks
“They took Mistral-Seven-B, had a lot of human annotations, had a lot of proprietary data, just modify Mistral-Seven-B so that it solved their task, just as well as GPT-PT-PT-PT, but only for a lower cost and a higher level of control.”
Arthur Mensch Dec 28, 2023 ▶ 19:49 Safety in Numbers: Keeping AI Open
Feb 28, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Webster: DeepSeek performs 20% worse than GPT on jailbreak benchmarks
“On our benchmarks, it performs about 20% worse.”
AI Security Researcher Feb 28, 2025 ▶ 4:43 How to use DeepSeek safely
Feb 28, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Ian Webster: OpenAI's GPT refuses ~40% of sensitive Chinese political prompts
“Yeah, but still around 40% as opposed to 85% on this particular test set.”
Ian Webster Feb 28, 2025 ▶ 11:34 How to use DeepSeek safely
Jun 27, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sinofsky: GPT creates better enterprise case studies than typical marketing associates
“I, like, I'm telling you, GPT generates better enterprise case studies faster than the typical marketing associate does at a company in, like, one millionth effort.”
Steven Sinofsky Jun 27, 2025 ▶ 25:05 Former Microsoft Executive Explains Where We Are in the AI Cycle w/ Anish Acharya & Steven Sinofsky
Aug 5, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Moe: Kimi K3 costs less than Claude or GPT but exceeds smaller open models
“Where Kimi K-Stri is not as expensive as Claude or GPT Sol, but it is a lot more expensive than JLN-F.”
Simon Moe Aug 5, 2026 ▶ 17:09 How Open Source Became AI's Backbone | Inferact with a16z
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