ChatGPT, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where ChatGPT comes up
Be Your Best in 2026: The Most Important Lessons from The Knowledge Project (2025)
- ▶ 16:22 Bret Taylor Uh, most companies hadn't heard the phrase large language models or generative AI yet. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:00 Anthony Scilipoti I asked ChatGPT to tell me, what about this?
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland
- ▶ 2:20 Shane Parrish I'm going to India to chat GPT, and you're like, plan it for me, versus you go to a travel agency, and you're like, I'm going to India, plan it for me.
Forensic Account: The Bubble No One is Talking About | Anthony Scilipoti
- ▶ 8:01 Anthony Scilipoti I asked ChatGPT to tell me, what about this?
Barry Diller: Building IAC
- ▶ 29:02 Barry Diller The first time I used ChatGPT, which was before it was released, and I thought, well, this is friggin' magic, and we're
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
- ▶ 27:03 Benedict Evans Everyone's using ChatGPT, which answers, well, not exactly, which is my data point. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:49 Benedict Evans It may be that, yes, ChatGP, that OpenAI has more money so they can make their model better.
- ▶ 33:50 Shane Parrish You said some people look at ChatTPT and don't get it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:05 Shane Parrish Everything else, they, they basically have defaulted to ChatGPT now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:05 Benedict Evans And so they'd made one, and they'd used it with chat GPT and not hold me, and they just sent it to me to check, and I looked at it, and I said, what the fuck is this bullshit? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:51 Shane Parrish The difference is the slope of the insights, and so you wouldn't say it if ChatGPT is going to say it, and push back on this by all means, uh, but the, the ChatGPT level of insight, to use an example, it could be Cloud, it could be Grok,…
- ▶ 1:00:37 Benedict Evans Like, this was a technology that had been kind of floating around before ChatGPT, 3.5, and everyone kind of saw that it didn't work very well, and then ChatGPT works, well, no, actually it works well enough, and then there's this explosion… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:49 Benedict Evans Is it, is it that everybody's used, just uses ChatGP to do the thing?
Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World
- ▶ 15:21 Elad Gil So before ChatGPT came out and before MidJourney and all these things kind of took off. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:51 Shane Parrish Why can't ChatGPT just do it? 2 times in the scene
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
- ▶ 1:02:44 Garry Tan It might come back, you know, five minutes, 10 minutes later, um, but it will be much more correct than sort of the, you know, predict next token version that you might get out of, you know, standard chat GPT. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:07 Garry Tan You know, I think there's this funny example where, uh, AI safety think tanks were in Congress, and, um, they were sort of, you know, going to ChatGPT and, you know, typing in sort of a doomsday example, and it spits out this, you know,…
- ▶ 1:23:45 Garry Tan I, you know, people maybe have heard of ChatGPT, they definitely haven't heard of Anthropic or Claude.
- ▶ 1:51:30 Garry Tan And, uh, if you use ChatGPT, you'll see the steps, but it's like a summary of it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:13:34 Garry Tan We had Evan Morikawa, who was the eng manager who released ChatGPT.
Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
- ▶ 4:08 Bret Taylor ChatGBD came out, and, uh, before it became a phenomenon, though it did so quickly, but I was already, you know, plugged into it, and, and, uh, and I was, uh, from then on, you know, I could not stop thinking about it, uh, but that avocado…
- ▶ 26:10 Bret Taylor So if you rewind two years, you know, most people hadn't used ChatGPT yet. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:59 Bret Taylor In consumers, we'll use things like ChatGPT as a consumer or as a developer, you'll license, uh, and rent, you know, one of these models, uh, in the cloud.
- ▶ 1:07:20 Bret Taylor Well, first, I think OpenAI, I believe, will play a huge part in it, because, uh, there's both the technology, which I think OpenAI continues to lead on, um, but also ChatGPT, which has become synonymous with AI for most consumers, but… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:44 Shane Parrish OpenAI, or ChatGPT, I guess, if you want to call it that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:16 Bret Taylor And, you know, there's some point a parent just starts making up the answer, being dismissive, and like, we have ChatGPT out, and it's like the best when you're traveling, and. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:57:03 Bret Taylor Well, look, it's one thing if ChatGPT hallucinates something about your brand.
Bruce Flatt on Value, Discipline, and Durability
- ▶ 15:03 Bruce Flatt Everyone thinks of artificial intelligence as ChatGPT.
Josh Wolfe: Human Advantage in the World of AI
- ▶ 3:27 Josh Wolfe If you've tried ChatGPT operator,
- ▶ 5:14 Shane Parrish You mentioned chat GPT operator. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:09 Josh Wolfe Straight head-to-head competition, you know, Anthropic, and Claude, and Chachapiti, and OpenAI, and others.
- ▶ 32:52 Josh Wolfe I, I, I definitely see that models can improve, because you can even argue, like, DeepSeq's R-one is a model that was improving upon outputs from ChatGPT and, and so on.
- ▶ 48:13 Josh Wolfe Or middle class, but want people to think that they're upper class, or people that, you know, and, and so, uh, everything else for privacy, I think, is, like, out the window, but the reason I was saying this is, um, I've given myself over…
- ▶ 1:21:54 Josh Wolfe So I will open three different browsers, you know, arrange them, and put it into ChatGPT, put it into Claude, put it into one of the perplexity models that's not running on those two, and, you know, sometimes I'll mix and match them.
How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash
- ▶ 1:43:55 Shane Parrish And I'm thinking, you know, maybe something that comes to my mind is like, it's a wrapper over chat GPT or something.