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Gurley: Vertical AI startups hold defensible workflow and data moats against ChatGPT
“I think that there are workflows and data moats that if you get, and also just understanding, like, there's three or four legal startups in the AI space. They're just spending so much more time making sure they ingest all the case law and really understand, yo…”
Brockman: AI Users Need Legal Privilege Protections Similar to Doctors and Lawyers
“You talk to a doctor, you talk to a lawyer, those are privileged conversations, right? You feel comfortable sharing them. There's certain guardrails on when the healthcare provider would have to, you know, provide that information to law enforcement or alert s…”
Garry Tan: ChatGPT is the second-best software; custom UIs are first
“One of the funnier quips is that, ah, you know, the second best software in the world for everything is, ah, using ChatGPT, because you can basically copy and paste, you know, almost any workflow or any data, and it's like the general purpose thing that, you k…”
Taylor: AI model market will consolidate into a few massive capex players
“I think we have probably have too many people building models right now. There's already been some consolidation actually of companies being folded into Amazon and Microsoft and others. But I do think it will play out a bit like the cloud infrastructure busine…”
Taylor: ChatGPT will be the primary delivery mechanism for AGI
“Is I do think that, It will be the delivery mechanism for AGI when it's produced, and not just because of the many researchers at OpenAI, but because of the amazing, like, utility it's become from individuals.”
Halligan predicts inbound traffic will shift from Google to ChatGPT
“I think over the next five years, that's going to change a lot. I think Google's going to have to change a lot, and I think people are going to spend more and more of their time inside ChatGPT, and they're all ChatGPT's competitors.”
Eastman: ChatGPT could do $150,000 of data science work in a weekend
“So I probably spent maybe a 150,000 dollars in hiring data scientists to clean and to produce dashboards for Beyond Tells. ChatGPT. I could have done it all in a weekend.”
Tenev: AI market will see multiple domain-specialized models, not one winner
“I think there's going to be multiple models and it's really going to depend on the data that is used to feed them.
So for example, one thing that's great about Aristotle, which is harmonics model is you've got mathematicians that are using it to ask very comp…”
Evans: Never publish writing if ChatGPT could have generated it
“Now I can just say, is this what ChatGPT would have said? And if the answer is, this is what ChatGPT would have said, then I don't publish it. Not because people can get it from ChatGPT, but because anyone would have said that.”
Robinson: When AI answers everything, human edge is asking better questions
“The key thing in school right now, this is really important, it's the key to the future, it's the key for everything, not just school, is when you've got machines that can answer anything, the edge is Who asks the best questions? That's key.”
Robinson: ChatGPT is purely deductive and incapable of making novel logical leaps
“It doesn't come up with insights. It's a really good deductive analytic machine, but it's not yet capable of making logical leaps that aren't evident from the domain.”
Evans: ChatGPT dominates consumer app rankings while competitors lag outside top 50
“ChatGPT is at the top of the outstore rank. Gemini bubbles between, like, 50 and a hundred. None of the others are in the top 100. Same in Google Trends. Same in the usage numbers. Same in the revenue.”
Tan: Mainstream global users know ChatGPT but definitely not Anthropic or Claude
“If you go any, almost anywhere in the world I, you know, people maybe have heard of ChatGPT, they definitely haven't heard of Anthropic or Claude.”
Wolfe: I Query ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity Simultaneously Across Browsers
“I will put them into three different models at the same time. 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,…”