How AI's new era is inspiring one startup founder
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4.8 • 127 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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This podcast features Kirill Zubovsky, a startup founder and consultant, who is now working with AI to create applications. He talks about his journey over the past few months with AI, his experience with generative AI and GPT-3, and the application of AI he has been working on, Smartynames, a domain and business name finder. He also talks about his experience living in a van with his two kids and two pets and his thoughts on the current "App Store moment" for artificial intelligence.
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| 0:00.0 | Jeff Bezos didn't invent the internet, but he built a massively successful company because he understood how to wield the power of the internet. |
| 0:08.0 | And that's where I think AI is going to, where multiple people will actually build massive companies that will just change the way we do things using this tech. |
| 0:27.5 | After calling up the website smartenames.com this week, I typed in a description for a business idea. |
| 0:33.0 | Dron photography business in the greater Seattle area. |
| 0:38.3 | Like lots of people, I've been through the agonizing process of brainstorming business and project names and trying to find appropriate and available web domains to match. So it was |
| 0:45.1 | fascinating when a few seconds later, smarty names produced a list of available domains that could |
| 0:51.3 | work. They ranged from the snappy but generic AeroPix Seattle.com to the way too long Skytech imaging |
| 1:00.6 | Seattle.com. |
| 1:02.5 | But in the middle of the list, I found my favorite, up above Seattle.com. |
| 1:10.2 | After a few clicks and a modest registration fee, that domain was mine. |
| 1:15.6 | Smarty Names is the brainchild of Kareel Zubovsky, an engineer, startup founder, and tech consultant. |
| 1:22.8 | He created the domain and business name finder using tools including the GPT3 natural language processing technology. |
| 1:30.1 | That's, of course, created by chat GPT maker OpenAI, which this week announced a new investment from its partner, Microsoft. |
| 1:38.2 | After launching in early December with a post on Hacker News, Smarty Names has generated suggestions for more than one million domain names, |
| 1:46.1 | Zubovsky said in a blog post this week. He has already expanded beyond traditional.com |
| 1:51.1 | domains, and he's planning a larger suite of tools to help businesses get online. It's a prime example |
| 1:57.8 | of the creative energy that some startup leaders and tech veterans |
| 2:01.0 | believe generative AI will increasingly unlock for businesses and entrepreneurs. |
| 2:07.0 | Zubovsky is clearly one of those believers. |
| 2:10.2 | I spoke with him in December a couple weeks after he launched Smarty names. |
| 2:14.9 | First off, can you pronounce your name for me and give me the thumbnail sketch |
| 2:19.4 | who you are and what your career's been? Oh dear, so much pressure. Well, you pronounce as |
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