generative AI
12 statements across 6 episodes · 4 bullish · 5 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement May 25, 2023 by Sean Weisbrot · across every show →
Everything said about generative AI, oldest first
May 25, 2023 neutral
Jul 20, 2023 bearish
Foster: Human product managers would severely outperform AI in feature A/B tests
“I'd be really interested to see if you like did, you know, the ultimate AB test here and you generated a hundred new features for different products that were all kind of like AI generated as opposed to like good product manager generated who would outperform …”
Jul 20, 2023 positive
Jul 20, 2023 bullish
Jul 20, 2023 bearish
Foster: Generative AI models cannot understand a product's core value proposition
“Whether it's chat GPT or any other, these other kind of like generative models, they, or AI systems, they don't have an underlying model of what the real kind of like good, like they don't have a model underneath of what A great product is. They're just trying…”
Aug 15, 2023 negative
Reyes: Generative AI optimizes for human satisfaction, not factual truth
“ChatGPT and all of generative AI that does text is optimized to give responses that are satisfying for humans. So then it doesn't care about truth or doesn't care about preciseness of information, but that you feel that what it's saying is very smart and that …”
Aug 15, 2023 bullish
Reyes: AI real-time translation enables non-English speakers to pitch US VCs
“And nowadays Skype has real-time audio translation, so then you can talk to a VC phone in California in Spanish, and the other person will hear it in English because of Generative AI, and you don't even need to know English to pitch, and this will open a lot o…”
Oct 24, 2023 positive
Chalana: Technologists will develop solutions to identify deepfakes and misinformation
“The scientists and the technologists are coming up with great solutions to identify deep fake, identify
You know, misinformation, things that are blatantly false.
So I think we'll have, I'm hopeful, but that's the one thing I'm scared about, but I think we'll…”
Oct 24, 2023 bearish
Weisbrot: Generative AI startups face massive consolidation by late 2025
“Chances are in a year or two, a lot of those companies are going to be dead. They're going to be acquired or they're going to die because they can't monetize or people don't want to use it anymore, or there's someone that's cheaper. So there's going to be this…”
Oct 24, 2023 neutral
Chalana: Generative AI Is Near Peak Hype Before Trough of Disillusionment
“So I feel like we're kind of just at the peak of the hype, which is beyond that a little bit in generative AI where we still haven't seen the trough yet, and then we'll start seeing A lot more valuable things coming out of that.”
Dec 19, 2023 bearish
Jun 23, 2026
Mercer: Activate Uses Generative AI to Rank and Validate City Initiatives
“We've built a AI tech enabled platform that creates outcome intelligence. And so activate becomes not just that one day and then 100 leaders. We now have some permanence because we've provided some actual data of the cities that we've had these ideations in cr…”