Wikipedia

4 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Feb 15, 2024 by Aravind Srinivas · said 27 times in 11 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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2026 2 mentions in 1 episode

AI Agents Are Creating A Data Explosion. Here's What To Do About It. — With Clint Sharp Aug 11, 2026 · 2 mentions · from 32:15
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2025 14 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode

Inside Google's Generative AI Reinvention — With Nick Fox and Liz Reid Aug 27, 2025 · 4 mentions · from 14:35
Is ChatGPT The Last Website?, Grok’s System Prompt, Meta’s llama Fiasco May 19, 2025 · 4 mentions · from 2:18
Can We Save The Web From AI? — With Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince Aug 13, 2025 · 3 mentions · from 12:48
Brain Computer Interface Frontier: Depression, Coma, AI Merge Sep 5, 2025 · 1 mention · from 49:10
AI’s Drawbacks: Environmental Damage, Bad Benchmarks, Outsourcing Thinking May 14, 2025 · 1 mention · from 24:22
Boom Times For ChatGPT, OpenAI’s Deep Research, AI Super Bowl Feb 7, 2025 · 1 mention · from 56:41
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2024 8 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas: How AI Challenges Google Feb 15, 2024 · 6 mentions · from 21:02
Predicting AI’s Next Advances — With Suhail Doshi Mar 20, 2024 · 2 mentions · from 33:18
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2023 1 mention in 1 episode

Blake Lemoine and Gary Marcus Debate AI Chatbots Feb 23, 2023 · 1 mention · from 4:43
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2022 2 mentions in 1 episode

Is AI Dangerously Overhyped? — With Gary Marcus Sep 13, 2022 · 2 mentions · from 11:43
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Feb 15, 2024 neutral

Assertion Open · timeframe Feb 2027

Srinivas: Wikipedia will not build its own GPT

“No, they're not going to build their own GPT. I've spoken to him and he uses our product and he likes our product a lot.”

Aravind Srinivas Feb 15, 2024 ▶ 21:37 Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas: How AI Challenges Google

May 19, 2025 bearish

Opinion

Wikipedia is effectively finished now that ChatGPT has eclipsed its traffic

“To me, that's basically like Wikipedia is done.”

Alex Kantrowitz May 19, 2025 ▶ 24:38 Is ChatGPT The Last Website?, Grok’s System Prompt, Meta’s llama Fiasco

May 19, 2025 bullish

Assertion Supported

ChatGPT surpasses Wikipedia to become the fifth most-visited website globally

“ChatGPT has overtaken Wikipedia. So ChatGPT is site number five, and Wikipedia is eight.”

Alex Kantrowitz May 19, 2025 ▶ 24:33 Is ChatGPT The Last Website?, Grok’s System Prompt, Meta’s llama Fiasco

Aug 13, 2025 negative

Assertion Partly supported

Kantrowitz: AI bots caused Wikipedia's server costs to increase exponentially

“The server costs that they have to pay have increased exponentially, but those aren't human visitors. They're AI bots crawling Wikipedia.”

Alex Kantrowitz Aug 13, 2025 ▶ 12:51 Can We Save The Web From AI? — With Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince

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