Daniel Sternberg

Head of Data, Notion_bio_placeholder · 1 appearance on the record.

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12statements → 6claims → 0claims resolved → 3.92/5average certainty → 1.83/5average debate potential → ≈4.0/5argument clarity, estimated →

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269 words/min while actually speaking · 43.9 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Daniel Sternberg: only 4 usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews. Their coarse estimate from 4 raw tape exchanges is ≈4.0/5, shown at half point precision because the sample is small.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 4,507 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

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Disclosure
Sternberg: Notion to launch first AI-enabled project management experience soon
“We are excited about some major improvements and kind of an all, a much more cohesive experience around how you manage projects in Notion. And some of that's going to be coming very soon. And it's going to be very much, I would argue, the first AI-enabled expe…”
Daniel Sternberg May 31, 2023 ▶ 21:06 An AI Assistant to Work Faster with Notion's Head of Data, Daniel Sternberg
Opinion
Sternberg: Few B2B SaaS companies match Notion's user behavior data depth
“We have an ability, I think, to look at The business and drivers of the business and tie them back to user behavior and customer behavior in a way that I actually think very few companies in kind of B to B SaaS do”
Daniel Sternberg May 31, 2023 ▶ 3:04 An AI Assistant to Work Faster with Notion's Head of Data, Daniel Sternberg
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Sternberg: Future AI software interfaces will not rely entirely on chat
“Over time, I actually think there will be a more radical transformation to the user experience. I don't think it's all, I personally don't think it's all chat all the time. It's like the way we're all going to interact with all products.”
Daniel Sternberg May 31, 2023 ▶ 16:59 An AI Assistant to Work Faster with Notion's Head of Data, Daniel Sternberg
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sternberg: Notion began developing Notion AI before ChatGPT released
“While no one saw notion AI capabilities before ChatGPT, I'm not going to give us too much credit. It wasn't way, way, way before, but we were definitely working on this a little bit before that, and there was a pretty big focus at that point.”
Daniel Sternberg May 31, 2023 ▶ 11:58 An AI Assistant to Work Faster with Notion's Head of Data, Daniel Sternberg
Insight
Sternberg: LLMs' core transformative value is bridging structured and unstructured data
“One of the most interesting use, ah, most transformative use cases I think of generative AI and large language models is the ability to bridge between structured and unstructured information much more easily.”
Daniel Sternberg May 31, 2023 ▶ 21:47 An AI Assistant to Work Faster with Notion's Head of Data, Daniel Sternberg
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Sternberg: Notion employees do not inspect external users' workspace content
“We do not actually, like, look at pieces of content from external users' workspaces.”
Daniel Sternberg May 31, 2023 ▶ 23:50 An AI Assistant to Work Faster with Notion's Head of Data, Daniel Sternberg
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Sternberg: Notion agreements prohibit third-party AI partners from training on customer data
“We have agreements with our partners that they were not using that data to train models, et cetera.”
Daniel Sternberg May 31, 2023 ▶ 24:33 An AI Assistant to Work Faster with Notion's Head of Data, Daniel Sternberg
Disclosure
Sternberg: Notion's custom internal data infrastructure accelerated its AI feature launches
“As AI started to become more of a focus for us, some of these, some of this, ah, home built internal infrastructure that we were already starting to develop for some of those use cases, Started to be something that was actually helped us and kind of was a brid…”
Daniel Sternberg May 31, 2023 ▶ 6:18 An AI Assistant to Work Faster with Notion's Head of Data, Daniel Sternberg
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sternberg: Notion AI's top use cases focus on summarization and text improvement
“A lot of the most intensely used use cases of the current Notion AI experience are around kind of summarization, improving content.”
Daniel Sternberg May 31, 2023 ▶ 8:00 An AI Assistant to Work Faster with Notion's Head of Data, Daniel Sternberg
Disclosure
Sternberg: Notion uses models from both OpenAI and Anthropic
“While those are the two that I can say are, yes, publicly, like, we have leveraged both of those partners”
Daniel Sternberg May 31, 2023 ▶ 10:40 An AI Assistant to Work Faster with Notion's Head of Data, Daniel Sternberg
Disclosure
Sternberg: A Notion co-founder actively codes and built early AI features
“One of our co-founders who still actively writes code was in his own world working on this for some time as well.”
Daniel Sternberg May 31, 2023 ▶ 14:31 An AI Assistant to Work Faster with Notion's Head of Data, Daniel Sternberg
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sternberg: Notion sends data to third parties only when users use Notion AI
“Today we have a limited number of providers we're working with, and we are only sending content to them when you are choosing to use notion AI.”
Daniel Sternberg May 31, 2023 ▶ 25:16 An AI Assistant to Work Faster with Notion's Head of Data, Daniel Sternberg

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
An AI Assistant to Work Faster with Notion's Head of Data, Daniel Sternberg May 31, 2023 21m
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