GPT

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14 statements across 12 episodes · 7 bullish · 2 bearish · 11 people on the record · first statement Oct 20, 2023 by Jeremy Howard · said 112 times in 62 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Oct 20, 2023 negative
Opinion
Howard: AI research went backwards for years pursuing zero-shot learning
“And so I actually feel like we kind of went backwards for years and not to be honest, I mean, I'm a bit sad about this now, but I kind of got so disappointed and dissuaded by like, It felt like these bigger lab, much bigger labs, you know, like fast.ai had onl…”
Jeremy Howard Oct 20, 2023 ▶ 19:29 The End of Finetuning — with Jeremy Howard of Fast.ai
Oct 20, 2023 positive
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Howard: Alec Radford Built OpenAI's GPT After Reading ULMFiT
“I organized a chat for both of us with Kate Metz in the New York Times, and Kate Metz answered, sorry, and Alec answered this question for Kate, and Kate just like, so how did, you know, GPT come about? And he said, well, I was pretty sure that pre-training on…”
Jeremy Howard Oct 20, 2023 ▶ 15:41 The End of Finetuning — with Jeremy Howard of Fast.ai
Mar 6, 2024 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chintala: Aggregate open source AI model usage rivals GPT
“Maybe open source models are being as used as GPT is at this point in, like, all kinds of, in a very fragmented way. Like, in aggregate, all the open source models together are probably being used as much as GPT is. Maybe, you know, close to that.”
Soumith Chintala Mar 6, 2024 ▶ 1:12:31 Open Source AI is AI we can Trust — with Soumith Chintala of Meta AI
Aug 17, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Howard: Reka's model is probably superior to GPT and Claude for certain tasks
“There's a whole model that's been trained in a different way. So there's probably a whole lot of tasks it's probably better at than you know, GPT and Gemini and Claude.”
Jeremy Howard Aug 17, 2024 ▶ 36:42 Answer.ai & AI Magic with Jeremy Howard
Dec 25, 2024 positive
Opinion
Neubig: GPT Loops On Errors While Claude Tries New Approaches
“So, like, GPT doesn't have very good air recovery ability. And so, because of this, it will go into loops and do the same thing over and over and over again, whereas Claude does not do this.”
Graham Neubig Dec 25, 2024 ▶ 14:25 Best of 2024 in Agents (from #1 on SWE-Bench Full, Prof. Graham Neubig of OpenHands/AllHands)
Jan 17, 2025 positive
Insight
McAteer: Use Claude Sonnet for simple tasks and o1 for complex context
“Anything where it just seems simple and like, you can do one off and you don't need to bring a ton of context into it. You can typically use like sonnet or GPT for that. Anything where I feel like if I was going to try to implement it myself and I would need t…”
Dan McAteer Jan 17, 2025 ▶ 17:13 OpenAI o1 isn’t a chat model (and that’s the point)
Jul 2, 2025 positive
Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2030
Morris: LLaMA architecture will likely store more information per parameter than GPT
“Maybe even if we tested this with LALAMA architecture, like, there's sort of like a GPT++ architecture, like, I would guess that can store better data just because the kind of numerical flow is a little bit better, the nonlinearities are maybe, like, A little …”
Jack Morris Jul 2, 2025 ▶ 57:30 Information Theory for Language Models: Jack Morris
Jul 14, 2025 neutral
Insight
Top LLMs hold marginal performance edges over cheaper tiers
“Historically, what we have seen from our previous initiatives is that, okay, maybe the best GPT or best cloud is the top model, but there might be very small gap with the model just below it. And then it becomes a cost performance trade off so that users can k…”
Pratik Bhavsar Jul 14, 2025 ▶ 5:26 ⚡️Ranking Agentic LLMs — Pratik Bhavsar, Galileo
Jan 28, 2026 neutral
Opinion
Logistics Data Matters More Than Frontier LLM Intelligence in Lab Science
“I think whether GPT, 5.2 codex max or Opus 4.5 is going to do better. It's probably doesn't matter. It's just a matter of like, which one's going to have all the information about what's in the lab and how much will it cost? How long will it take?”
Andrew White Jan 28, 2026 ▶ 18:54 🔬 From Red Teaming GPT-4 to Automating Drug Discovery: The Future of AI in Science — Andrew White
Feb 10, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Self-reflection training data is now core to all frontier foundation models
“What this suggests about the GPT training data is that the self-reflection data has now actually become pretty much core to the training of all frontier models, because we're seeing that happen in non-instruct models across the board.”
Pratyush Maini Feb 10, 2026 ▶ 15:26 ⚡️ Reverse Engineering OpenAI's Training Data — Pratyush Maini, Datology
Feb 10, 2026
Assertion Supported
Non-reasoning Grok, GPT, and Gemini models exhibit recursive self-correction loops
“And so then I tried this across models, and I saw consistently across Grok, and GPT, and Gemini, that you were seeing this phenomena where models will, like, self-correct themselves quite a bit, and these were, like, non-thinking models. They were, like, the s…”
Pratyush Maini Feb 10, 2026 ▶ 7:08 ⚡️ Reverse Engineering OpenAI's Training Data — Pratyush Maini, Datology
Jun 3, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Hong: Harmonic's Aristotle Verified an Erdős Problem Proof Found by GPT
“In fact, like, you know, GPT found a proof to an unsolved Erdos problem, and our competitor Harmonic, you know, Aristotle you know, verified it.”
Carina Hong Jun 3, 2026 ▶ 25:33 Scaling Past Informal AI - Carina Hong, Axiom Math
Jun 18, 2026 negative
Opinion
Google's internal compute credit market caused it to miss GPT
“This is a thing that has been tried internally within Google, and it led to Google missing GPT.”
Shawn Wang Jun 18, 2026 ▶ 13:46 Why AI Labs With Unlimited GPUs Still Fail — Anjney Midha, AMP
Sep 2, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
Lie: Cerebras demoed GPT running at over 4,400 TPS at Hot Chips
“We here in this demo that we gave at hot chips we're showing GPT OSS running at over 4000 400 TPS, which is just mind blowing.”
Sean Lie Sep 2, 2026 ▶ 5:16 The Inference Frontier: from 100 to 10,000 tokens per second — Sean Lie, Cerebras CTO
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