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The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:37:06 Ben Gilbert So think on the phone, in chat, SMS, WhatsApp, ChatGPT, email, all in over 30 languages.
- ▶ 2:08:13 Ben Gilbert And it's where Oracle hosts the massive compute clusters that power ChatGPT for OpenAI.
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:19:59 David Rosenthal And part of that growth was that for the first time this year, a few merchants were able to sell on Black Friday directly inside ChatGPT, thanks to Shopify's partnership with OpenAI.
- ▶ 2:20:10 David Rosenthal So, like, no links or redirects, consumers could ask ChatGPT about Black Friday deals for products they're interested in.
- ▶ 2:20:17 David Rosenthal And Shopify loaded actual checkout flows directly within their ChatGPT conversations.
- ▶ 2:20:23 Ben Gilbert Glossier, Away, Nike Strength, Majuri, Spanx, and Skims were all live on ChatGPT on Black Friday with Shopify.
Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:50 Ben Gilbert So think OpenAI and ChatGPT, Anthropic, NVIDIA hitting all-time highs.
- ▶ 3:58 Ben Gilbert Google still has a crazy bench of talent, and despite ChatGPT becoming kind of the Kleenex of the era, Google does still own the text box, the single one that is the front door to the internet for the vast majority of people anytime anyone…
- ▶ 12:26 David Rosenthal There's a small little throwaway passage in here about this, because this book came out before ChatGPT and AI and all that.
- ▶ 46:05 David Rosenthal This kicks off a 10 year period from 2012, when this happens, until ChatGPT on November 3020 22, when AI is already shaping the human existence for all of us and driving hundreds of billions of dollars of revenue.
- ▶ 1:01:36 David Rosenthal It turns out, though, not only was that description of what DeepMind was fairly accurate, this company and this purchase of it by Google was the butterfly flapping its wings equivalent moment that directly leads to OpenAI, ChatGPT,…
- ▶ 1:38:13 David Rosenthal But we're still a couple years away from Anthropic, Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, everything today.
- ▶ 1:40:19 Ben Gilbert It's not ChatGPT time.
- ▶ 2:11:14 Ben Gilbert But, this is all still pre-ChatGPT, this is just Sam lining up the financing he needs for what appears to be a very expensive scaling exercise they're about to embark on.
- ▶ 2:14:47 David Rosenthal Obviously your own site, that's always been true, but now with Shopify you can easily sell on Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Roblox, Roku, ChatGPT, Perplexity, anywhere.
- ▶ 2:19:23 David Rosenthal So towards the end of 2022, leading up to the launch of ChatGPT.
- ▶ 2:19:46 Ben Gilbert People are not bright on the future of Google and then ChatGPT comes out.
- ▶ 2:20:28 David Rosenthal So, before we talk about ChatGPT, Google had a chatbot.
- ▶ 2:22:14 David Rosenthal That arguably is pretty close to ChatGPT.
- ▶ 2:22:18 David Rosenthal Now, it doesn't have any of the post-training safety that ChatGPT does, so it would go off the rails.
- ▶ 2:22:46 Ben Gilbert And technically, not only did it not have post-training, it didn't have RLHF either, this very core component of the models today, the reinforcement learning with human feedback, that ChatGPT, I don't know if it had it in three, but it did…
- ▶ 2:25:34 Ben Gilbert Do you know the story of the launch of ChatGPT?
- ▶ 2:26:03 Ben Gilbert They just turn calls to the ChatGPT, 3.5 API into a product where you're just chatting with it.
- ▶ 2:28:23 David Rosenthal OpenAI launches a research preview of an interface to the new GPT-three-point-five called ChatGPT.
- ▶ 2:28:34 David Rosenthal That morning on the 30th, Sam Altman tweets, today we launched ChatGPT.
- ▶ 2:28:43 David Rosenthal Within a week, less than a week, actually, it gets one million users.
- ▶ 2:28:48 David Rosenthal By the end of the year, so, you know, one month later, December, 31st, twenty-twenty-two, it has thirty million users.
- ▶ 2:29:03 David Rosenthal It crosses one hundred million registered users.
- ▶ 2:30:00 David Rosenthal He leaves in twenty-twenty-one and founds a chatbot company, Character AI, that still exists to this day, and they raise a lot of money, as you would expect, and then Google ultimately in twenty-twenty-four, after ChatGPT launches, pays…
- ▶ 2:31:01 Ben Gilbert And all fairness, predates ChatGPT.
- ▶ 2:32:08 David Rosenthal And as far as anyone else is concerned before ChatGPT, they are an AI-first company, and they're launching all this amazing AI stuff.
- ▶ 2:32:20 David Rosenthal So ChatGPT comes out, becomes the fastest product in history to a hundred million users.
- ▶ 2:32:32 David Rosenthal ChatGPT is a better user experience to do the same job function that Google search does.
- ▶ 2:34:06 David Rosenthal So what happens in Google December, 20, 22, even before the Bing launch, but after the chat GPT moment, Sundar issues a code red within the company.
- ▶ 2:34:57 David Rosenthal Once ChatGPT comes out,
- ▶ 2:37:39 David Rosenthal Well, even before that, January 23, when OpenAI hits a hundred million registered users for ChatGPT, Microsoft announces they are investing another ten billion dollars in OpenAI.
- ▶ 2:38:55 Ben Gilbert I didn't know the term at the time, RLHF, but it was clear it was missing a component of some magic that ChatGPT had, this reinforcement learning with human feedback, where you could really tune the appropriateness, the tone, the voice,…
- ▶ 2:40:13 David Rosenthal You can access that now through ChatGPT.
- ▶ 3:10:32 David Rosenthal I mean, ChatGPT happened in November 3020 22.
- ▶ 3:17:02 David Rosenthal Plenty of other folks have made the sort of glib comment, but there's merit to it of, hey, as flat-footed as Google was when ChatGPT happened, if the outcome of this is they avoid a Microsoft-level distraction and damage to their business…
- ▶ 3:33:04 Ben Gilbert Even though lots of people use ChatGPT for lots of things, Google's traffic, I assume, is still essentially an all-time high, and it's a default behavior.
- ▶ 3:38:23 David Rosenthal If you think you're gonna get five years of depreciation on AI chips, five years ago, we were still two years away from ChatGPT.
- ▶ 3:50:34 Ben Gilbert Despite ChatGPT having the Kleenex brand, Google distribution is still unbelievable.
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:25:25 Ben Gilbert VZero is a chat bot that looks like Claude or ChatGPT or Gemini, except that when you give it a
- ▶ 3:41:10 David Rosenthal When I was talking to folks in the research for this episode and AI came up, one of them said, you know, I have to remind people when I'm talking to partners out in the ecosystem that the T in chat GPT stands for transformer and that we…
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:22:17 David Rosenthal Or even let's start with, you know, the chat GPT moment.
Rolex (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 56:16 David Rosenthal We've had the chat GPT moment, shall we say, for wristwatches.
TSMC founder Morris Chang · Acquired
- ▶ 1:33:54 Ben Gilbert In November of twenty-twenty-two, ChatGPT was released.
Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:25:22 Ben Gilbert You guys shipped this product that I'm holding before LLMs, or at least before the public consciousness was aware of, you know, the ChatGPT moment, and these were not manufactured and shipped as an AI device.
- ▶ 1:27:37 David Rosenthal Um, and now ChatGPT.
The Mark Zuckerberg Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 17:13 Ben Gilbert Before LLMs, or at least before the public consciousness was aware of, you know, the ChatGPT moment, and these were not manufactured and shipped as an AI device.
- ▶ 19:23 David Rosenthal Um, and now ChatGPT.
Hermès (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:01:56 Ben Gilbert It's all the good things about ChatGPT and all the good things about Google and none of the bad things of either.
- ▶ 4:02:18 David Rosenthal Honestly, this is why I don't use ChatGPT for acquired work.
Holiday Special 2023 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 33:49 David Rosenthal Added arguably almost all of the most important AI companies in the world this year, including OpenAI, which uses Statsig for ChatGPT, Microsoft, Atlassian, Anthropic, many, many others, along of course with regular old companies like…
Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023) (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:35 Ben Gilbert First, with OpenAI's ChatGPT, which became the fastest app in history to a hundred million active users, and then quickly followed by Microsoft, Google, and seemingly every other company.
- ▶ 25:57 Ben Gilbert Here we are eight years later, and we have ChatGPT.
- ▶ 29:34 David Rosenthal GPT-III-IV, ChatGPT, everything going on, all these LLMs, they're just probabilistically predicting the next word in a sentence.
- ▶ 47:30 David Rosenthal And then, of course, this all leads to November 30th, twenty-twenty-two, in Jensen's words, the AI heard around the world, OpenAI comes out with chat GPT.
- ▶ 1:07:07 David Rosenthal So you buy a, you know, top-of-the-line RTX-X-X, what-have-you gaming card right now, that is no longer the same architecture as the H-One-Hundreds that are powering ChatGPT.
- ▶ 1:28:24 Ben Gilbert This is the year ChatGPT was released.
- ▶ 1:33:39 Ben Gilbert And there's pretty good evidence, I mean, ChatGPT made it so OpenAI is rumored to be doing over a billion dollar run rate now.
- ▶ 2:30:21 Ben Gilbert Well, David, I haven't asked you about this in, like, a month or so, but a month ago, you were pounding the table insisting to me, like, I have no need for, I've never used ChatGPT, I can't find it to be useful, it's hallucinating all the…
- ▶ 2:31:22 Ben Gilbert I know people who use ChatGPT to set their OKRs, and I'm like, okay,
- ▶ 2:31:28 Ben Gilbert That's why I have ChatGPT do it.
- ▶ 2:41:01 Ben Gilbert And as we've mentioned, OpenAI is rumored to be doing over a billion dollars in recurring revenue on ChatGPT.
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek · Acquired
- ▶ 39:54 Ben Gilbert The reality, though, is whether you realize it or not, you probably are because many employees are using ChatGPT and other services to help with their work.
- ▶ 1:04:00 Daniel Ek And so the amazing thing is, um, I, I just for the fun of it, like, wanted to start doing stuff, and I asked ChatGPT to help me, and pretty much, um, on a few hours on a Sunday afternoon, I was up and running,
Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired
- ▶ 1:21:23 David Rosenthal Then ChatGPT came out, and Sarah realized that it could write SQL and Python scripts on its own, and aha, she was like, generative AI can be my team member that answers all the one-off requests.
Holiday Special 2022 · Acquired
- ▶ 23:34 David Rosenthal But now as we record this, ChatGPT came out last week, like, we were thinking about the, you know, AI renaissance and how important AI is, like, just in a general sense when we did those episodes.
- ▶ 25:21 Ben Gilbert We saw Dolly two, GPT three, and now chat GPT, which to me is actually the most interesting because the most meaningful change is that it changed the modality that you interact with the AI model, but
- ▶ 26:02 Ben Gilbert I feel very similar with ChatGPT right now.
- ▶ 30:28 Ben Gilbert And that's how I feel about ChatGPT right now.