Poe
product on 5 shows · 6 statements across 4 episodes · said 61 times in 14 episodes since 2023
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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…”
Immerman: Gen AI search offers a much better UX than Google
“If you think about the Google experience as it is today, it's just a long list of links. And the first few are sponsored. They're ads. And I, as a user, when I make a query on Google, I then need to make the decision. I have to sift through the information on …”
D'Angelo: Chat is a better AI paradigm than Quora's publication model
“A chat kind of experience, where you can write a question and then get an answer instantly from AI, Was more likely to be the best paradigm for interacting with AI as opposed to this kind of like publication paradigm that, that Quora had.”
D'Angelo: Mass-market AI products require traditional consumer internet optimization know-how
“There's actually a lot of this kind of, like, consumer internet know-how that's important in getting a product to mass market. So this is things like building applications across iOS and Android and Windows and Mac, localization of the interface, A-B testing, …”
D'Angelo: Poe spends millions on inference, mainly to large model providers
“We're spending millions of dollars already on, on inference. It's mostly going to the large model providers right now, but we want to let as much of that as possible go off to these independent creators.”