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
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Weisbrot: Workers Ignoring AI Will Lose Their Jobs This Decade
“I believe that what happened back then in the nineties is is going to repeat in this decade where if you don't learn how to use the AIs that are coming out, you will lose your job to someone who's willing to learn.”
Sean Weisbrot May 25, 2023 ▶ 9:46 Passion Is the Fuel, Not the Emotion: One Founder's Case for a New Industry
Jul 20, 2023 bearish
Opinion
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 …”
Ben Foster Jul 20, 2023 ▶ 21:16 AI Predicts the Next Word. It Cannot Predict the Next Car.
Jul 20, 2023 positive
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Foster: AI will shrink product teams but make top talent highly valuable
“And I think the same kind of thing is going to happen when it comes to product as well, which is there's going to be a need for fewer product people, but the very best are going to be worth their weight in platinum.”
Ben Foster Jul 20, 2023 ▶ 11:32 AI Predicts the Next Word. It Cannot Predict the Next Car.
Jul 20, 2023 bullish
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Foster: AI generation of interactive wireframes from user stories is already solvable
“I think that by itself absolutely would. And I think that's a solvable, that is a solvable problem with the technology even as it stands today. So I do think those kinds of things are going to be out there”
Ben Foster Jul 20, 2023 ▶ 26:14 AI Predicts the Next Word. It Cannot Predict the Next Car.
Jul 20, 2023 bearish
Insight
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…”
Ben Foster Jul 20, 2023 ▶ 19:59 AI Predicts the Next Word. It Cannot Predict the Next Car.
Aug 15, 2023 negative
Insight
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 …”
Ricardo Michel Reyes Aug 15, 2023 ▶ 32:47 550 Million People, One Language, Zero Access to Venture Capital
Aug 15, 2023 bullish
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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…”
Ricardo Michel Reyes Aug 15, 2023 ▶ 24:11 550 Million People, One Language, Zero Access to Venture Capital
Oct 24, 2023 positive
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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…”
Vikram Chalana Oct 24, 2023 ▶ 6:27 He Rode 3 AI Waves. One Thing Still Keeps Him Up at Night
Oct 24, 2023 bearish
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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…”
Sean Weisbrot Oct 24, 2023 ▶ 20:07 He Rode 3 AI Waves. One Thing Still Keeps Him Up at Night
Oct 24, 2023 neutral
Opinion
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.”
Vikram Chalana Oct 24, 2023 ▶ 15:38 He Rode 3 AI Waves. One Thing Still Keeps Him Up at Night
Dec 19, 2023 bearish
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Versteeg: Generative AI in Sales Will Increase Laziness and Canned Outreach
“What's going to happen Is we're going to see more laziness, and more ineffectiveness, and more canned messages, and more of the same.”
Alan Versteeg Dec 19, 2023 ▶ 3:03 Conviction Before Competence: Why Top Earners Defy Every Sales Profile
Jun 23, 2026
Disclosure
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…”
Shelton Mercer Jun 23, 2026 ▶ 8:33 60 Days Down to 60 Minutes Changed How Shelton Thinks About His Own Team
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