OpenAI’s endgame, DeepMind’s chatbot, United by Zero’s Lex Kiefhaber + OK Boomer | E1657
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Molly and Jason kick off the show about social taboo topics and getting to the bottom of Covid-19.(2:22) Following the two discuss Molly attending Strictly VC, DeepMind’s new chatbot Sparrow and OpenAI’s end game. (15:43) Then Molly interviews LAUNCH Accelerator founder United by Zero CEO and Founder Lex Kiefhaber (52:34). Then we cap off the episode with another great edition of Ok Boomer featuring Juliet Meskers, co-founder and CEO of MOTH (1:08:45)
(0:00) M+J kick off the show
(2:22) Covid-19 and cultural taboo topics
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(12:01) Getting to the bottom of Covid-19
(15:43) Molly attended Strictly VC to hear Sam Altman speak about AI
(19:33) Crowdbotics - Get a free scoping session for your next big app idea at crowdbotics.com/twist
(21:06) The difference between creating and packaging AI
(28:42) DeepMind’s chatbot Sparrow + AI infringing on intellectual property
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(38:49) What is OpenAI’s end game?
(52:34) Molly interviews LAUNCH Accelerator founder United by Zero CEO and Founder Lex Kiefhaber
(1:08:45) Ok Boomer featuring Juliet Meskers, co-founder and CEO of MOTH
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, everybody, it's Friday. |
| 0:00.9 | It's a big show today. |
| 0:02.7 | A lot of developments in the degenerate movement, |
| 0:06.2 | generative AI movement. |
| 0:08.2 | It's moving out of the crazy pace. |
| 0:10.1 | It is not degenerating. |
| 0:11.4 | It is only, it's actually like a fractal right now. |
| 0:16.0 | It's just, it's exponential. |
| 0:18.2 | It's exponential. |
| 0:19.3 | A lot of people are working on it. |
| 0:20.7 | And I think a lot of people have been working on it quietly |
| 0:22.9 | are now starting to show their work, |
| 0:24.7 | show your work moment in time. |
| 0:26.8 | And a little bit of competition now has happened |
| 0:29.8 | we got reports that DeepMind is gearing up |
| 0:33.2 | to release their own beta chatbot to compete with chat GPT |
| 0:37.0 | and they're calling it Sparrow |
| 0:38.0 | and they're addressing a lot of the issues |
| 0:40.0 | we've been bringing up here around citations and fair use. |
| 0:44.9 | Yeah, and I have some insights |
| 0:46.5 | from seeing Sam Altman speak at an event last night |
| 0:49.6 | about how quickly this industry might move |
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