How AI's new era is inspiring one startup founder
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🗓️ 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 Besos 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 |
| 0:14.1 | change the way we do things using this tech. |
| 0:17.5 | After calling up the website smarty names |
| 0:23.1 | this week I typed in a description for a business idea. |
| 0:27.6 | Drone photography business in the greater Seattle area. |
| 0:33.0 | Like lots of people, I've been through the agonizing process of brainstorming business |
| 0:38.0 | and project names and trying to find appropriate and available web domains to match. So it was fascinating when a few |
| 0:46.8 | seconds later, smarty names produced a list of available domains that could work. They |
| 0:52.2 | ranged from the snappy but generic aeropix |
| 0:56.4 | Seattle.com to the way too long Skytech imaging Seattle.com. |
| 1:02.0 | But in the middle of the list I found my favorite up above |
| 1:07.8 | Seattle.com. After a few clicks and a modest registration fee, that domain was mine. |
| 1:15.0 | Smarty Names is the brainchild of Kiril Zubovsky, an engineer, startup founder, and tech consultant. |
| 1:22.0 | He created the domain and business name finder. Senior, startup founder, and tech consultant. |
| 1:23.1 | He created the domain and business name finder using tools including the GPT 3 natural language |
| 1:28.2 | processing technology. |
| 1:30.3 | That's of course created by Chat gp t-maker open AI, |
| 1:33.7 | which this week announced a new investment from its partner Microsoft. |
| 1:38.4 | After launching in early December with a post on hacker news, |
| 1:41.6 | Smarty Names has generated suggestions for more than 1 million |
| 1:45.0 | domain names, Zubovsky said in a blog post this week. |
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