ChatGPT
15 statements across 11 episodes · 7 bullish · 4 bearish · 10 people on the record · first statement Aug 21, 2023 by Reid Hoffman · across every show →
Everything said about ChatGPT, oldest first
Aug 21, 2023 bullish
Aug 21, 2023 neutral
Sep 29, 2023 positive
Suleyman: Google's LaMDA Was 'ChatGPT Way Before ChatGPT'
“So in many ways, it was ChatGPT way before ChatGPT, and we were completely blown away with how good your seventh and 10th turn of conversation was with the model, because it obviously had the prior turns of interaction in its working memory.”
Dec 18, 2023 bullish
Jan 2, 2024 negative
Jan 31, 2024 bearish
Gavet: Startups attempting to compete with ChatGPT will probably fail
“And frankly, if you're an entrepreneur and your dream is to compete with ChatGPT, you're probably not going to succeed because of the compute power and the data sets required to even remotely have a shot at competing. So the only businesses that might compete …”
Feb 22, 2024 negative
Gustafsson: Generative AI creates linguistically complex and convincing phishing emails
“We're seeing phishing emails being crafted using these tools. The linguistic complexity of those emails has got far broader as it becomes much easier for people to communicate in a way that feels much more natural and human.”
Apr 12, 2024 neutral
Kawasaki: Leading AI models lack distinct brand positioning and differentiation
“Like today, if I had to explain to someone when to use ChatGPT, when to use Bard, when to use Perplexity, when to use Claude, when to use all this, you know, I don't know if I could, I can't. I mean, I use all fives kind of at random, and it's like, in the car…”
Aug 7, 2024 positive
Lakhani: ChatGPT generates willingness-to-pay estimates that match real consumer data
“My colleague Ayelet Israeli has a consumer intelligence lab at our institute, and she's, she has shown that you could do consumer research with ChatGPT. You can do market research. You can get willingness to pay estimates that match real consumer data”
Aug 7, 2024
Lakhani: Despite widespread trial, only 10% of professionals use generative AI daily
“So, like, 80%, 90% say they've used it. 75% to 70% say that it's going to change their job, their career, whatever. Then I ask, how many of you use these tools every day in your professional life? 10%. 10% say yes. So what I see is, there's a massive knowing d…”
Aug 8, 2024 neutral
Bret Taylor: AI hallucinations violate 30 years of deterministic computing expectations
“Because we have been trained for the past 30 years to think of Computers as these extremely powerful rules engines. A correctly running computer was entirely deterministic, right? A correctly running computer could look up facts. When you search something in G…”
Aug 8, 2024 positive
Taylor: Conversational interaction is the most ergonomic software interface
“My intuition is that with the advent of large language models and ChatGPT being that inflection point with large language models, talking to software is perhaps the most ergonomic way we can interact with software because you don't need an instruction manual t…”
Apr 3, 2025 positive
Hoffman: AI hallucinations can still accelerate human productivity
“And so even in this kind of hallucination case because of the research, it was actually still an accelerant. It just is an accelerant in a way that kind of proves the point from my earlier book, Impromptu, and also part of what I'm trying to say in Superagency…”
Jan 31, 2026 negative
Jan 31, 2026 bullish
Masad: Kids will learn programming by osmosis using Replit and ChatGPT
“And I promise you, your kids will learn programming by osmosis. Like, They can just, like, see, they're gonna get curious at some point, they run into a bug, they're gonna go around and ask you at GPT, and that's how I think the organic learning process happen…”