GPT-3

6 statements across 6 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Nov 8, 2024 by Sam Altman · said 27 times in 14 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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brought up most by Sam Altman (5), Raza Habib (4), Michael Truell (4), Diana Hu (3), Nick Joseph (2), Jared Kaplan (2), Aravind Srinivas (2), Satya Nadella (1)

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Everything said about GPT-3, oldest first

Nov 8, 2024 bearish
Opinion
Altman: No Great Businesses Were Built on GPT-3 Except Copywriting
“But, with the possible exception of copywriting, no great businesses were built on GPT-III.”
Sam Altman Nov 8, 2024 ▶ 27:24 How To Build The Future: Sam Altman · Y Combinator
Feb 21, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
OpenAI built a slow, internal web browsing prototype called Truthbot
“OpenAI even had a bot when I worked there called the Truthbot, which John, John built with this team. Where you could ask it a question and it'll go and search the web, and then it'll give you an answer with some sources. And it was very slow, and it was built…”
Aravind Srinivas Feb 21, 2025 ▶ 11:55 How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas · Y Combinator
Jun 11, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Truell: ChatGPT supposedly cost only 1% more to train than GPT-3
“But it rumored that to go from GPT-III, which, you know, had existed for a while and didn't You know, impressed some people, but was certainly not the breakout moment ChatGPT was. To ChatGPT, it was like a one percent increase in the training costs.”
Michael Truell Jun 11, 2025 ▶ 24:05 Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents, And Why Taste Still Matters · Y Combinator
Jun 21, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Altman: AI progressed to PhD-level intelligence across most areas in five years
“In five years we have gone from this, like, thing that could barely write a sentence to a thing that is like, you know, PhD level intelligence in most areas.”
Sam Altman Jun 21, 2025 ▶ 38:23 Sam Altman: The Future of OpenAI, ChatGPT's Origins, and Building AI Hardware · Y Combinator
Sep 30, 2025
Assertion Supported
Joseph: Public estimates placed GPT-3 training cost at $5 million
“Like the public estimates for GP three, I remember, were that it cost five million dollars to train, which you're like, on the one hand, five million is kind of a lot, but it's like a lot for an individual person. It's not really a lot from like a company pers…”
Nick Joseph Sep 30, 2025 ▶ 10:16 Anthropic Head of Pretraining on Scaling Laws, Compute, and the Future of AI · Y Combinator
Mar 27, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
Chollet: Base LLMs Score Under 10% on ARC-AGI-1
“So basal alarms were scoring extremely low on V-one, like sub-ten percent, basically. And, I mean, it was true of the original, like, GPT-III actually scoring zero, but that's even true of the latest basal alarms today, you know, as of March.”
François Chollet Mar 27, 2026 ▶ 17:57 François Chollet: Why Scaling Alone Isn’t Enough for AGI · Y Combinator
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