GPT-3
includes GPT 3 Davinci
10 statements across 9 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Feb 16, 2023 by Amjad Masad · said 116 times in 41 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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brought up most by Vishal Misra (19), Erik Torenberg (10), Amjad Masad (7), Vijay Pande (6), June Park (6), Guido Appenzeller (5), Eugenia Kuyda (4), Chris Schroeder (4)
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2026 14 mentions in 3 episodes 5 per episode
2025 50 mentions in 21 episodes 2 per episode
- Will LLMs Get Us To AGI?
- Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
- GPT-5 and Agents Breakdown – w/ OpenAI Researchers Isa Fulford & Christina Kim
- Reasoning Models Are Remaking Professional Services
- Is AI Slowing Down? Nathan Labenz Says We're Asking the Wrong Question
- From Vibe Coding to Vibe Researching: OpenAI’s Mark Chen and Jakub Pachocki
- Faster Science, Better Drugs
- AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- 13 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
2023 42 mentions in 11 episodes 4 per episode
- Inside AI Town: What AI Can Teach Us About Being Human
- The True Cost of Compute
- Expert AI as a Healthcare Superpower
- The 1000x Developer with Amjad Masad
- Chasing Silicon: The Race for GPUs
- Global Investing in Tech: Pattern Recognition, Founder Traits, Momentum | Field Notes by Connie Chan
- Where We Go From Here with OpenAI's Mira Murati
- 2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 1)
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
Everything said about GPT-3, oldest first
Feb 16, 2023 positive
Masad: GPT-3 slashes parser development time from weeks to 15 minutes
“GPT-III is incredibly good at parsing. If you give it a malformed JSON, it will still parse it. Writing parsers is one of the hardest things you can do in programming. Writing parsers in GPT-III is one of the easiest thing you could do. You could spend 15 minu…”
Apr 19, 2023 positive
Sep 25, 2023 neutral
Dec 28, 2023 negative
Mensch: AI industry stopped publishing open research after GPT-3
“And all of a sudden in with GPT-free, this tide kind of reversed and companies started to be more opaque about what they were doing because they realized there was actually a very big market. And all of a sudden in 20, 22, on the important aspects of AI and on…”
Dec 28, 2023 negative
May 31, 2024 positive
AI App Day-90 Retention Increased Consistently With GPT Model Upgrades
“There's an example of an AI-native companionship product where they actually did this test where they used GPT-one, GPT-two, GPT-three, and they actually tracked the cohort of user retention using each of the models. And it's very clear as the model quality im…”
Oct 13, 2025
Misra: GPT-3 prompt matrix rows exceed atoms in all known galaxies
“If you just take just the old first generation GPT-III model, which had a context window of 2000 tokens and a vocabulary of 50,000 next tokens or 50,000 tokens, then the size of it, the number of rows in this matrix is more than the number of atoms across all …”
Oct 14, 2025 positive
Nov 7, 2025
Adam D'Angelo: Quora built Poe because GPT-3 answers failed to match humans
“The way we got to it was we, in early, we started experimenting with using GPT-III to generate answers. For Quora. And we compared them to the human answers and sort of realized that they weren't as good, but what was really unique was that you could instantly…”
Mar 17, 2026
Misra claims he built the first known implementation of RAG using GPT-3
“And I got GPD three to do in context learning, few short learning, and you know, it was kind of the First, at least to me, it was the first known implementation of RAG, Retrieval Augmented Generation, which I used to solve this problem of querying, getting GPT…”