generative AI
12 statements across 7 episodes · 8 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 1, 2020 by Shaan Puri · across every show →
Everything said about generative AI, oldest first
May 1, 2020 positive
Puri: Natural language AI will generate full animations and video
“You're just going to be able to say things and it's going to be able to create what you're saying. So you're going to be able to say, okay, what if Donald Trump was talking to, you know, whatever, Barack Obama, and then Donald jumped in the air and he said thi…”
Jul 19, 2022 neutral
Shaan Puri: Most future internet content will be auto-generated by AI
“Like it's not unreasonable that like most of the content you read on the internet is just going to be written by computers. Like you're going to go on Twitter. It's just going to be auto-generated content from brands and people that are, you know, just pluggin…”
Jul 19, 2022 neutral
Shaan Puri: Generative AI will make real and fake media indistinguishable
“Hey, you're not going to know what's real and what's fake. Like, cause fake and real are going to be like indistinguishable, like a deep fake video or like a Photoshop photo, but for everything, for voices, for videos, for drawings, for whatever Twitter thread…”
Jul 19, 2022 bearish
Shaan Puri: AI might eventually replace Hollywood by making movies autonomously
“Like we may not have Hollywood at some point. It'll just be like computers making movies and the rest of us just like, you know, Wally, what's that movie where they're like fat people sitting in wheelchairs and just like sucking down slurpees and watching stuf…”
Oct 18, 2022 positive
Puri: AI simulations of deceased people will be a net positive
“To me, this is an extension of that, which is like, now it's going to be somewhat interactive that you can kind of interact with these people or hear them talk about new things. And you know that it's not like the real thing, but it's, you know, there's a blac…”
Oct 18, 2022 bullish
Mar 30, 2023 positive
Shah: AI shifts software UX from imperative steps to declarative outcomes
“An imperative model is you give step-by-step instructions that says do this and then do this and then do this and then do this. And then I get the thing. What natural language allows us to do is use, ah, what developers would call a declarative model. Instead …”
Mar 30, 2023 bullish
Shah: AI is an order of magnitude bigger than mobile
“I think it's the single largest opportunity and biggest kind of a tech paradigm shift we've seen since the internet originally came out. Like mobile was big but there was a discrete set of use cases. Like when you put a camera on a phone, when you put a GPS de…”
Oct 12, 2023 bullish
Oct 12, 2023 bullish
Puri: AI will drop porn COGS down to GPU costs
“I think for the companies, you drop your cogs down, right? So like, you don't have to worry about all the takedown notices and copyright issues and lawsuits that you're gonna, that you have from people uploading stolen works or having to share revenue with all…”
Nov 16, 2023 negative
Puri: Unsigned digital content will soon be distrusted by default
“It will become true very soon that like, if there's a piece of content that's unsigned, it's about, you know, I don't know what this is. This isn't the same organic produce. I don't know what this is. This is, I don't know where this came from. I don't trust t…”
Jun 11, 2024 bullish
Sanwal: CB Insights has potential to exceed its $800M valuation
“I think, like, I think this business, especially with generative AI, has, like, a lot of legs to grow. But yeah, I mean, selling for eight hundred million back, you know, then Would have been a fantastic outcome for everybody involved, but yeah, I think we can…”