AI

also referred to as: ais · artificial intelligence

40 statements across 23 episodes · 23 bullish · 9 bearish · 22 people on the record · first statement Jun 9, 2022 by Sundar Pichai · across every show →

Everything said about AI, oldest first

Jun 9, 2022 neutral
Insight
Pichai: The early internet lacked the ethical scrutiny AI receives today
“I genuinely don't recall much conversations in the early days of the internet about some of the negative externalities that could come with it, right? And it was much more of a positive view.”
Sundar Pichai Jun 9, 2022 ▶ 20:14 HIBT Lab! Google: Sundar Pichai
Jun 9, 2022 positive
Opinion
Google CEO Sundar Pichai states that AI requires government regulation
“I mean, there needs to be laws and regulations.”
Sundar Pichai Jun 9, 2022 ▶ 21:22 HIBT Lab! Google: Sundar Pichai
Jun 16, 2022 negative
Opinion
Cuban: Algorithmic content promotion is effectively an editorial choice
“Because when you're Designing an algorithm or using AI and setting the goals of the AI that you've created, the neural networks you've created, you effectively are making an editorial choice to promote something.”
Mark Cuban Jun 16, 2022 ▶ 8:36 HIBT Lab! Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company: Mark Cuban
Jun 16, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cuban: Nine of top 10 US companies except Berkshire are AI leaders
“And if you look at the top 10 market cap companies in the United States, all but Berkshire Hathaway with Warren Buffett are companies that are amazing at AI.”
Mark Cuban Jun 16, 2022 ▶ 32:11 HIBT Lab! Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company: Mark Cuban
Sep 22, 2022 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lore: AI-driven text commerce will act like a best friend recommending products
“Using artificial intelligence and texting, I think people would be able to, in the future, just text what they want, and the system would know you as well as your best friend or family member, and be able to recommend precisely what you want, and either using …”
Marc Lore Sep 22, 2022 ▶ 35:03 HIBT Lab! Wonder: Marc Lore
Sep 29, 2022 positive
Opinion
Altman: The best long-term future involves humans merging with AI
“And the most positive long-term futures that I can imagine involve some degree of a merge. It doesn't have to be the crazy sci-fi, like, you know, plug something into our brains or upload ourselves or whatever. But at a minimum, I think it needs to involve som…”
Sam Altman Sep 29, 2022 ▶ 54:48 HIBT Lab! OpenAI: Sam Altman
Sep 29, 2022 neutral
Prediction Held up
Altman: AI is automating creative jobs before blue-collar labor
“You know, the strong consensus Five, 10 years ago, was that first of all the AI was going to come for the blue-collar jobs. Second of all would be the less sophisticated white-collar jobs. Third of all would be the very high cognitive load white-collar jobs li…”
Sam Altman Sep 29, 2022 ▶ 48:03 HIBT Lab! OpenAI: Sam Altman
Sep 29, 2022 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Altman: AI will become a ubiquitous layer across all software
“And I think the same thing will happen for AI. There will be a layer of intelligence provided by us and others. It's just everywhere. And as the systems continually get smarter, everything you use will get smarter and smarter as well.”
Sam Altman Sep 29, 2022 ▶ 46:19 HIBT Lab! OpenAI: Sam Altman
Jun 1, 2023 neutral
Opinion
Roth-Eisenberg: Recent NFT and AI hype resembles the dot-com boom
“It was a magical time when the web was sort of, you know, exploding and everybody thought it's going to change the world forever, which it did to a certain extent, but I feel like we have similar hypes right now, you know. Around just recently NFTs and then no…”
Tina Roth-Eisenberg Jun 1, 2023 ▶ 3:29 Cultivating a creative community with Tina Roth-Eisenberg of CreativeMornings
Jul 6, 2023 bullish
Disclosure
Horowitz: AMP Robotics builds 24/7 fully automated greenfield recycling plants
“We've now gone on to start building recycling facilities around our technology new greenfield sites built from the ground up around AI. What you find is you can do, you can go a step further. You can have facilities that'll run 24 seven facilities that can hav…”
Matanya Horowitz Jul 6, 2023 ▶ 24:10 When robots recycle with Matanya Horowitz of AMP Robotics
Jul 27, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Khan: Khanmigo Deploys a Second AI to Flag Safety Issues to Parents
“We have a second artificial intelligence that monitors conversations with the main artificial intelligence. And if any of those conversations go into a gray zone then it actively notifies the parents and the teachers that, hey, you should take a look at this c…”
Sal Khan Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 14:51 When AI is your personal tutor with Sal Khan of Khan Academy
Jul 27, 2023 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2028
Khan: AI tutoring will help Khan Academy achieve two-sigma learning gains
“Essentially, old Khan Academy or base Khan Academy trying to get to that first standard deviation. And, but now with the AI, we can go to that second standard deviation.”
Sal Khan Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 16:55 When AI is your personal tutor with Sal Khan of Khan Academy
Jul 27, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Khan: Khanmigo AI evaluates math reasoning by comparing hidden expected steps
“One of the things we've done to make it more robust on the math side is when a student presents their math to the AI saying, hey, I think this is the next step, the AI behind the scenes comes up with what it thinks are reasonable responses from the student. It…”
Sal Khan Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 17:55 When AI is your personal tutor with Sal Khan of Khan Academy
Oct 26, 2023 negative
Disclosure
Wolfe Herd: Bumble will never build virtual AI romance companion products
“No, not under my leadership, at least. Listen, I, that's not what we are here to do. We are definitely not in the business of trying to wipe out humanity and trying to get people to fall in love with, you know, fake iterations of humans. I don't want to use AI…”
Whitney Wolfe Herd Oct 26, 2023 ▶ 41:05 Love’s next chapter with Whitney Wolfe Herd of Bumble
Oct 26, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Wolfe Herd predicts AI will become how people meet each other
“AI is how we are going to meet people.”
Whitney Wolfe Herd Oct 26, 2023 ▶ 28:59 Love’s next chapter with Whitney Wolfe Herd of Bumble
Oct 26, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Wolfe Herd is obsessed with integrating AI into love and connections
“I am absolutely fascinated committed to, and on the track of integrating AI into love and connection and friendship and relationships. That is my obsession at the moment.”
Whitney Wolfe Herd Oct 26, 2023 ▶ 44:27 Love’s next chapter with Whitney Wolfe Herd of Bumble
Dec 14, 2023 bullish
Prediction Held up
Blumenthal: AI ocular imaging will eventually diagnose primary health conditions
“And then we can use AIs to make diagnoses eventually and, you know, help better triage. Customers, not just within sort of eye care, but for primary health care and beyond.”
Neil Blumenthal Dec 14, 2023 ▶ 33:38 Framing the future of eyecare with Neil Blumenthal and Dave Gilboa of Warby Parker
Jan 4, 2024 negative
Disclosure
Wolfe Herd: Bumble will never replace human dynamic emotion with AI
“My big focus is to never, ever, ever replace a real human dynamic emotion, want, or need with a computer, with a system, with a model, with a bot, right? And so what I would like to do is help humans connect better.”
Whitney Wolfe Herd Jan 4, 2024 ▶ 43:04 Sharing the 2023 HIBT Lab Highlight Reel
Jan 4, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Wolfe Herd: Bumble is exploring AI dating coaches to prepare users for chats
“So we have been hard at work exploring ways to have coaches or matchmakers or friends in your pocket, whatever you want to call it. You know, basically be that wing woman, wing man, wing person in your pocket to really show you that you've got this and to have…”
Whitney Wolfe Herd Jan 4, 2024 ▶ 43:54 Sharing the 2023 HIBT Lab Highlight Reel
Feb 19, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Voice Assistants Were Too Early; Breakthrough Will Come With AI Integration
“In my view, the voice assistants still, you know, their time is coming. I think they were just too early. Like now you see the startup companies trying to integrate voice assistants with the AI stuff. And do I believe in that? Yes. You know, is that 10 years a…”
John MacFarlane Feb 19, 2024 ▶ 48:37 Sonos: John MacFarlane
Feb 22, 2024
Insight
AI Creates a Double Exponential Curve by Accelerating Its Own Development
“Then you get AI and you get a double exponential. You get an exponential that accelerates its own exponential, meaning AI accelerates AI development.”
Tristan Harris Feb 22, 2024 ▶ 15:56 The peril (and promise) of AI with Tristan Harris: Part 1
Feb 22, 2024 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Combining AI With Attention Incentives Will Exacerbate Societal Information Crises
“It's the big incentives of the attention economy that have made this problem worse, and then combine that with technology and AI. And we're heading into, you know, a bigger version of that.”
Tristan Harris Feb 22, 2024 ▶ 9:48 The peril (and promise) of AI with Tristan Harris: Part 1
Feb 29, 2024
Opinion
Harris: The next 12 months are decisive for establishing AI guardrails
“In my mind, it's like, it's the next 12 months, it's like everything has to happen”
Tristan Harris Feb 29, 2024 ▶ 27:43 The peril (and promise) of AI with Tristan Harris: Part 2
Feb 29, 2024 neutral
Insight
Harris: Nvidia GPUs are the uranium equivalent for AI governance
“In this case, what uranium was for nuclear weapons Advanced Nvidia GPU chips are for AI.”
Tristan Harris Feb 29, 2024 ▶ 21:53 The peril (and promise) of AI with Tristan Harris: Part 2
Feb 29, 2024 negative
Insight
Harris: AI capabilities are outpacing society's ability to adapt
“We're just simply releasing more capabilities into society faster than society has the immune systems to absorb and adapt to all the new changes that accompany all of that AI getting released.”
Tristan Harris Feb 29, 2024 ▶ 8:26 The peril (and promise) of AI with Tristan Harris: Part 2
Apr 4, 2024 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mauborgne: Directing AI at productivity causes short-term job displacement
“As long as we're using technology, AI, and we direct it at productivity, which is important, and while there may be new jobs created in the medium to long term, usually disruption in the short to medium term, Starts to let even more people go.”
Renée Mauborgne Apr 4, 2024 ▶ 27:28 Less competition, more creation with Renée Mauborgne
Mar 6, 2025 negative
Opinion
Alberto Perlman: Founders not selling AI will likely struggle to raise money
“For anyone that doesn't, isn't selling AI, it's probably hard to raise money.”
Alberto Perlman Mar 6, 2025 ▶ 12:50 Advice Line with Alberto Perlman of Zumba
Mar 31, 2025 bearish
Opinion
AI and Contracting Tech Hiring Severely Threaten Coding Bootcamps
“I think it is definitely under threat because of AI. I also think it's under threat because software engineering hiring has just has shrunk. Those roles are just, there are a lot fewer of them now, and then I also, yes, definitely think the self-serve tools ha…”
Abhi Ramesh Mar 31, 2025 ▶ 16:26 Misfits Market: Abhi Ramesh
Jun 16, 2025 positive
Prediction Held up
Guy Raz predicts AI podcasts will be profitable within five years
“In, in, within five years, AI generated podcasts will be, they already are pretty good. They will be so good that people will make money out for them, and my value will probably be going, doing things live.”
Guy Raz Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 1:06:59 Figma: Dylan Field
Jun 16, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Field: Good design will become an even bigger software differentiator
“I think what becomes differentiator is design. It's craft. It's how it works. It's brand. And as we look at the future, that's what I believe will still be the differentiator for software. It's going to be that craft. And I think that the value of design of go…”
Dylan Field Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 1:07:53 Figma: Dylan Field
Jul 17, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
McLeod: AI will replace swiping with natural language preference matching
“I'm actually quite excited about the possibilities that we're now seeing because of AI, which I think will even further our ability to help people spend less time on our app and more time out on great dates. It will allow people Instead of communicating to us …”
Justin McLeod Jul 17, 2025 ▶ 5:48 Advice Line with Justin McLeod of Hinge
Feb 9, 2026 neutral
Insight
Hastings: Late-1990s e-commerce mania resembled today's AI rush
“E-commerce was like AI as today which is everyone's doing.”
Reed Hastings Feb 9, 2026 ▶ 22:14 Netflix: Reed Hastings. “We’re Not a Family.” The Provocative Idea That Helped Build a Streaming Giant
Feb 9, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hastings: Films will keep human actors because audiences demand human drama
“And I think in the same way you know films will have human actors, not because it can't be something else but because other humans won't be that interested.”
Reed Hastings Feb 9, 2026 ▶ 1:18:04 Netflix: Reed Hastings. “We’re Not a Family.” The Provocative Idea That Helped Build a Streaming Giant
Feb 26, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Hirschfeld: Paperless Post uses AI to eliminate unnecessary steps in design
“For us specifically the way that we are really focused on using AI at the moment is in taking work that users don't need to do out of the process of designing. We're working on ways of collapsing steps and taking time out of the process of customizing, but ena…”
Alexa Hirschfeld Feb 26, 2026 ▶ 2:40 Advice Line with Alexa Hirschfeld of Paperless Post
Mar 12, 2026 bullish
Insight
Lopez: AI audio flood will increase the value of trusted human hosts
“And ultimately, the people who are afraid that AI is going to create an influx of so many low quality and cheap alternatives to actual real voices, I think what they're not seeing is that in that environment, if that environment does happen, the value of a con…”
Hernan Lopez Mar 12, 2026 ▶ 6:00 Advice Line with Hernan Lopez of Wondery
Mar 12, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lopez: AI is not a threat to podcast creators
“I don't see AI as a threat to the podcast creating community. I think AI will be used as a tool to help everybody Produce better output to save time and to improve their marketing materials.”
Hernan Lopez Mar 12, 2026 ▶ 5:41 Advice Line with Hernan Lopez of Wondery
May 7, 2026 bullish
Insight
Peretti: Physical events will grow as AI makes software infinite
“I think that you can embrace AI and use it in products, but you also can counter program AI, which is people are sick of just digital experiences and want to connect with other people in the real world. And it's also scarce. You know, if all of a sudden softwa…”
Jonah Peretti May 7, 2026 ▶ 19:15 Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed
May 18, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Huang: AI innovation must be accelerated, not slowed, to improve safety
“There were even attitudes that, that we had to slow down AI innovation, which I believe is exactly the opposite. We had to speed up AI innovation because through innovation, we can make the technology safer, more secure.”
Jensen Huang May 18, 2026 ▶ 46:40 NVIDIA: Jensen Huang. From near collapse to becoming the world’s biggest company
May 18, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Huang: AI will empower new college graduates rather than taking their jobs
“AI is going to help this next generation of new college grads achieve greater things, build greater things, not take their jobs.”
Jensen Huang May 18, 2026 ▶ 50:33 NVIDIA: Jensen Huang. From near collapse to becoming the world’s biggest company
May 18, 2026 positive
Assertion Partly supported
AI revolutionized radiology scans, but human radiologist demand has still increased
“AI has now completely revolutionized radiology. Every single radiologist uses AI to Study the scans. It does it incredibly fast, incredibly accurately, better than a human can. However, radiologists' demand has gone up.”
Jensen Huang May 18, 2026 ▶ 48:07 NVIDIA: Jensen Huang. From near collapse to becoming the world’s biggest company
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