Chamath: Consumer chat LLM usage will decay to a fraction of its peak
Chamath Palihapitiya · E136: Hacking the pod, Threads launches, Fed minutes, immigration, balloon farce, heart health · Jul 9, 2023 · at 19:23
Chamath Palihapitiya discusses the drop in ChatGPT web traffic following its initial public hype wave.
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“There's some pretty useful use cases, but narrow, where these chat interfaces are very useful, and the usage will decay to that Number. And that number is probably a fraction of what the peak was.”
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