David Rosenthal: belief

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…You say you can see them, but we're in this very interesting moment where we've all seen three pre amazing proof of concepts in the last six months. We saw DALI-2, GPT-3, and now ChatGPT, which to me is actually the most interesting, because the most meaningful change is that it changed the modality that you interact with the AI model, but it's either the same or I think it’s GPT-3½ or something. It's a very similar model, but we're interacting with it in a new way and it's stateful rather than being stateless, as in it can preserve state and you can ask it more questions about. I think there's a little bit of a crypto moment here, where it's the first time someone explains to you a decentralized world computer. You're like, whoa, that unlocks a whole world of possibilities. You say what are they? Someone says, let me think about that. I feel very similar to ChatGPT right now. I'm looking at it, I'm like, whoa, this unlocks a whole world of possibilities. Someone says, what is it? I'm like, I feel better than I did about the decentralized world computer, but I still can't articulate to you when the app store launched, like this will be an $80 billion on demand car service market. I think this is just naturally how markets play out, though. We look back now and we're like when the app store launched, it was obvious, but was it at the time? I think we probably would've felt very similarly back in that moment of apps on your phone, cool. When I first saw the iPhone, I thought this device changes everything because I was like I wanted one so bad. I had a coworker at Cisco.…

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