Masad: AI models remix existing data and cannot create new knowledge
Amjad Masad · AI CEO: How To Make A $10M Business With AI Employees (Amjad Masad, CEO of @replit) · Jul 30, 2025 · at 1:21:56
Amjad Masad, CEO of Replit, explains the foundational limitations of large language models to Codie Sanchez.
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“GPT, ChatGPT, Cod, all of them, are simply machines that are trained to regurgitate all the materials they've read online, right? They're amazing machines, they can do programming, all that stuff, but they are a function of their data. You know, like you say, garbage in, garbage out. If you get a garbage, it's gonna give you a garbage back, right? it is, can do, it can do amazing things. It can do accounting. It can do programming. But ultimately, it's not gonna give you some truth, like supernatural truth about the universe or about yourself, because it is just trained on what's available online. And it is not gonna create new knowledge. it is about remixing knowledge.”
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