Conversational AI

topic on 11 shows · 14 statements across 13 episodes

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14 statements about Conversational AI, every show

DAVID SENRA Prediction Not checkable as stated
Staniszewski predicts conversational AI will deliver human-like dialogue within 12 months
“So, so I think 12 months from now, what will happen is, is similar as we are speaking. It's, I think the technology will be able to understand us at an incredibly better way, both our knowledge, both the emotional part of that conversation and deliver, deliver…”
Mati Staniszewski Sep 9, 2026 ▶ 1:05:16 Building One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies | Mati Staniszewski, ElevenLabs
NO PRIORS Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2027
Voice conversational AI will pass the Turing test within a year
“I think this is, is good for customer support or customer experience, but it's still a way away from like conversation like we have and like passing that Turing test. So I think this is still like a, at least a year, like within a year. And then you will have …”
Mati Staniszewski Dec 11, 2025 ▶ 31:29 No Priors Ep. 143 | With ElevenLabs Co-Founder Mati Staniszewski
STARTUP IDEAS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rauch: Future of AI chat is intertwining conversation with rich UI
“I believe the future of this AI conversational interface is going to be this intertwining of chat and rich UI components.”
Guillermo Rauch Oct 29, 2025 ▶ 38:50 Vercel's CEO Shares 5 AI Startup Ideas So Good You’ll Quit Your Job
Green: Conversational queries are more natural online than keyword search
“It's actually even more natural to go online and ask a question than it is to just search a keyword, and so this novelty, which was a novelty to come online and be able to start having a conversation with technology in a way you hadn't before, is something we …”
Kirsten Green Jun 27, 2025 ▶ 3:30 Legendary Consumer VC Predicts The Future Of AI Products · Y Combinator
Interviewees Are More Candid With AI Agents Than Human Reporters
“When it comes to people asking questions or conversing with ChatGPT, there's a quality of, you don't necessarily feel like there's someone there, and you might be a little more intimate than you would have otherwise. And that can be very valuable in an intervi…”
Evan Ratliff Feb 12, 2025 ▶ 32:39 His AI Voice Clone Went To Therapy, Took Meetings & Attended Family Dinners - w/ Evan Ratliff
Beauchamp: Interacting with AI prevents the post-consumption remorse of social media
“With old school social media, you're just consuming passively, right? So you'll just swipe. If I'm watching TikTok, just like swipe and swipe and swipe. And even though I'm getting the dopamine of like watching an engaging video, there's this other thing that'…”
William Beauchamp Jan 26, 2025 ▶ 16:35 Outlasting Noam Shazeer, Crowdsourcing Chai AI w/ 1.4m DAU — with William Beauchamp, Chai Research
Jain: Speech-to-text conversion loses emotional context and audio granularity
“You realize that you lose a lot of granularity when you go from voice down to text, you lose emotion.”
Ankit Jain Dec 23, 2024 ▶ 12:19 He bet on voice AI when no one else did. Now he has $1M+ customers & $100M raised. | Ankit Jain, ... · PMF Show
20VC Prediction Open · timeframe Oct 2029
Taylor: Conversational AI will replace web and app clicks within five years
“And as a consequence, you know, I think that, you know, if you fast forward four or five years, when you're interacting with any of the consumer brands, you work with your insurance company, your phone company a car rental company, you will probably be having …”
Bret Taylor Oct 2, 2024 ▶ 47:34 Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Prediction Open · timeframe Oct 2029
Bret Taylor: Conversational AI will become the dominant computer interface
“And my thesis is just like touch screens have come to dominate Our experience with computers because of convenience, you can have a conversation in so many different places. You don't need an instruction manual. I think it will be the main way we work with com…”
Bret Taylor Oct 2, 2024 ▶ 51:10 Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
NO PRIORS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Karpathy: The world will reach ubiquitous conversational AI in everyday objects
“Or like when you go to objects like in Disney all the objects are alive. And I think we are going to potentially come to that kind of a world where why can't I talk to things?”
Andrej Karpathy Sep 5, 2024 ▶ 24:44 No Priors Ep. 80 | With Andrej Karpathy from OpenAI and Tesla
NEON SHOW Prediction Not checkable as stated
Agarwal: Centralized conversational interfaces routing backend apps will arrive much sooner
“From the user perspective, they can just come and ask and it has to leave then transfer to the right app... You're right. That's like, okay, I can come to the Google. I can ask a question and it should just figure it out. Like, okay, which app and how to get t…”
Manoj Agarwal Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 48:38 Deepfakes, AGI, Jobs Under Threat & More | DevRev Founder, Manoj Agarwal | Neon Show
ALL-IN Prediction Not checkable as stated
Chamath Palihapitiya predicts conversational AI usage will become hyper-fragmented
“In a world of AI where you can be more conversational, the idea that humans will want to get reduced to talking to one thing for everything, I think is wrong. I think instead it's actually going to be hyperfragmented because the best in class use cases are goi…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jun 16, 2023 ▶ 39:12 E133: Market melt-up, IPO update, AI startups overheat, Reddit revolts & more with Brad Gerstner
NO PRIORS Opinion
Big Tech Avoids Releasing Open-Ended Chatbots Due to Asymmetric Risk
“I mean, I think just like large companies have concerns around like launching products that can say anything. I mean, it's probably just a matter of like I w I would guess it's just like a matter of how much you're risking versus how much you have to gain from…”
Noam Shazeer Apr 25, 2023 ▶ 15:01 No Priors Ep. 12 | With Noam Shazeer
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Package.ai combines delivery management software with conversational AI
“Package AI is basically a combination of delivery management software and a conversational AI platform that basically transforms the last mile or delivery experience into a very customer centric experience.”
Ziv Foss Dec 4, 2021 ▶ 1:17 $1.4m ARR Furniture Delivery Chatbot Company Growing 200% YoY, Raising $5m Now

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