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Huang: Robotics had its ChatGPT breakthrough moment years ago
“I would say the chat GPT moment of robots happened a couple of years ago already.”
Srinivas: OpenAI's built-in search features in ChatGPT did not kill Perplexity
“OpenAI has perplexity within ChatGPT that did not kill any of these companies.”
Srinivas: No AI product has in-app network effects yet
“No AI product has within app network effect. Like it's not like WhatsApp where if you build a WhatsApp rival, Meta has a definitely like a questionable brand, right? Like people don't necessarily trust Meta's products. They think like these are ad products. De…”
Altman: AI models like o3 can act as junior employees executing multi-hour tasks
“But now you start to see things where you can like really give a task to Codex, for example or to deep research, and you have this thing go off and do a bunch of stuff and come back to you with like a proposal. It's like a very junior employee that can work on…”
Blomfield: Embedding chatbots into software is almost always the wrong approach
“I kind of hate the kind of chatbot paradigm. Like it was the easiest It was the way to bring the most basic LLM experience to the whole world. You know, we had GPT before ChatGPT and ChatGPT brought it to the mainstream, but now every product is just embedding…”
McGrew: Robotics will see a 'ChatGPT moment' within five years
“Robotics companies now are where, you know, LLM companies were five years ago. So I think in five years, you know, or even, even sometime in the next five years, we will see the chat GPT moment for robotics.”
Garry Tan: AI Memory Is Becoming a Moat for Consumer Products
“I think memory is turning into an actual moat for like that consumer experience.”
Tan: Gemini will never match ChatGPT's personality
“And I don't expect Gemini to ever have The personality that I would expect from ChatGPT. It just feels like a different, like, entity, you know.”
Pollak: Crypto is not yet having its ChatGPT moment
“Candidly, no. And I think the reason I say no is because if you ask a friend or family member, I don't think they'd say, oh yeah, I have had a magic moment with crypto. I think instead they might be fearful. They might not actually know what crypto is doing on…”
Srinivas: ChatGPT's dominance prompted Perplexity to pivot to building a browser
“ChatGPT is the most successful consumer AI product out there, and so competing against it is very difficult, which is why I really want to, like, push the company more on the browser side, and I think Comet, the browser, will be an abstraction layer about chat…”
Fei-Fei Li: ChatGPT opened the door to models passing the Turing test
“Twenty-twenty-two November, ChadGBT blasted open the door of truly working generation models that can basically pass the Turing test and all that.”
Altman predicts AI will shift from turn-based chat to proactive persistent companions
“You will have this, like, entity that gets to know you, that connects to all your stuff, and that is, like, proactively helping you. It'll, it won't just be like you send a message and it sends you one back, but it'll, like, be running all the time. It'll be l…”
Altman: OpenAI is focused on making ChatGPT the best super-assistant
“We are going to try to make the best super assistant out of ChatGPT that we can. We're going to Add the things that we think we need to add to that but that is, like, one small part of the opportunity in front of us, and it makes us sad when people are like, I…”
Altman: OpenAI had no defensibility strategy for ChatGPT in its early days
“It took us a long time to figure out how to answer the defensibility question for ChatGPT. We had built this thing, and for a long time, the only defensibility was, like, we had the only product out in the market. And then we kind of, like, a brand that starte…”
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.”
Lieb: Integrating Grok into X makes zero sense for normal users
“So this is basically ChatGPT inside of Twitter, which to me doesn't make a whole lot of sense, and I'm sure to any normal person makes zero sense.”
Steinberger: Major AI platforms lock user memory data into proprietary silos
“There's no, there's, definitely there's no way for a different company to get your memories out. So if I was like a company who like provides chat services, You could use me, but then I couldn't access the memories. So, like, the companies try to, like, bound …”
Garry Tan: ChatGPT Remains a Step Behind Perplexity for Web Search
“I'll use perplexity for fast web searches or things that you know, I know is like a research task because I think ChatGPT is still like a little bit of a step behind for searching the web.”
Taggar: LLMs cannot be trusted without heavy prompting in high-value transactions
“I still don't trust the models enough to be accurate without lots of Prompting. And it's a high value transaction, so you don't want to, like, get incorrect data out of it.”
Kaplan: Training frontier AI requires only next-word prediction and reinforcement learning
“So really all there is to training these models is learning to predict the next word and then doing reinforcement learning to learn to do useful tasks.”
Green: High-importance consumer AI needs specialized interfaces beyond generic chat
“But I do think that for topics that are particularly important to people there is a lot to be said for a unique interface. You know, a unique interface that is more reflective of that particular topic. So what you would imagine in your dashboard to your health…”
Altman: AI is somewhat mainstream, but most users only see basic chatbots
“I think AI is, like, somewhat mainstream right now. I, the negative, the way that it's not is most people still think of AI as ChatGPT, and a lot of people use ChatGPT, but they use it like a chatbot, and they have not yet wrapped their head around what's, wha…”
Blomfield: Founders without enterprise experience drastically underprice B2B software
“Often when you haven't worked at a big company, you don't have good calibration about what kind of prices these companies tend to pay for software. And so you might think of the last time you bought software, you know, a subscription to GitHub or ChatGPT, and …”
Habib: Fine-tuning is what separated ChatGPT from earlier GPT models
“If you look at what the difference is between ChatGPT or the most recent OpenAI Text DaVinci Three model, and what's been in the platform for two years and has not gotten as much attention, the difference is fine tuning. Like it's the same base model, more or …”
Habib: ChatGPT's obsequious tone drove the need for custom, use-case-specific models
“I think when ChatGPT came out, there was a lot of frustration from people who didn't like its personality. The tone was a bit obsequious and it's, you know, it'll defer. It doesn't want to give strong opinions on things. And to me that demonstrates the need fo…”
Chou: Ploy uses 3,500 curated web design prompts for inspiration
“We've used a collection of models, open AIs, ChatGPT images, but then we've created 3500 prompts for web designs that then Ploy takes inspiration from.”