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129 facts from 84 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.

2020s

Levie says Box is comfortable with customers using agents in ChatGPT or Harvey to work on data stored in Box.

“If you never logged into Box, but you used an agent to interact with that data inside of ChatGPT or Harvey or somewhere else, we're totally comfortable.”

Aaron Levie · How SaaS can survive the AI revolution, with Aaron Levie, 0:27:44

2022

A host says ChatGPT is a very similar model to GPT-3 but is interacted with in a new, stateful way that preserves conversation context.

“It's a very similar model but we're interacting with it in a new way and it's stateful rather than being stateless”

Acquired · Holiday Special 2022, 0:25:22

2022

Host Kurt Nikish says businesses and individuals began widely discussing ChatGPT's potential to change work in late 2022.

“Late in 2022 is when businesses of all sides and individuals started talking about how this easily accessible type of AI really was poised to change work as we knew it, really this time.”

Curt Nickisch · Why You (and Your Company) Need to Experiment with ChatGPT Now, 0:00:59

2022

Heller says the surge of attention around ChatGPT beginning in November 2022 helped drive CaseText's growth by making law firm leaders eager to learn about AI.

“to the extent there was like a hype moment around ChatGPT starting in November 2022, that really like played into, I'd say, our our growth.”

Jake Heller · Harnessing AI for legal practice with CoCounsel’s Jake Heller, 0:19:13

2022

OpenAI's ChatGPT debuted in November 2022, after which AI became a full-time beat for journalists at Fortune and other publications.

“And then with ChatGPT's debut in November 2022, the whole space has exploded so tremendously that it is now a full-time beat.”

Jeremy Kahn · Debunking AI myths, with Jeremy Kahn, 0:02:29

2022

Jeetu Patel says AI took off on November 30, 2022, the date ChatGPT was launched.

“It took off in November, on November thirtieth of 2022. What was so significant about that date? That's when Chat GPT was launched.”

Jeetu Patel · Never Fight a Megatrend: Cisco’s Jeetu Patel, 0:06:23

2022

Stack Overflow banned AI-generated answers after community members identified posts written by ChatGPT, and the company says the ban remains in force.

“that's kind of what initiated the ban, which we completely supported and still support, by the way.”

Prashanth Chandrasekar · Stack Overflow users don't trust AI. They're using it anyway, 0:15:41

2022

Generative AI emerged in the 2020s with the 2022 release of ChatGPT, followed by increasingly agentic systems.

“the twenty twenties, generative AI, with, of course, the release of ChatGPT in 2022, and increasingly agentic systems.”

Guest · Strategy Summit 2026: Why AI Means Radical Change, 0:05:56

2022

Raghu says the wider world noticed large language models when ChatGPT was released in late 2022.

“I think the world saw it in late 2022 when ChatGPT came out and everyone started paying attention.”

Maithra Raghu · How AI is reshaping Wall Street, 0:12:21

2022

McKinsey's first Rewired book came out about three years before this episode, around the time ChatGPT was released, and an update appeared in April.

“If you look at our rewired research, the first book came free, it came out three years ago, pretty much at the same time where Chat GPT was released, and then this April, we released the update”

Alexander Sukharevsky · McKinsey: Why Agentic AI Pilots Stall, 0:08:40

2022

Jeetu Patel said AI hallucination has dropped materially since ChatGPT first came out in 2022, though public sentiment has not improved as much.

“The hallucination factor with AI has gone down quite materially over the course of the past since 2022, when ChatGPT first came out.”

Jeetu Patel · How AI Is Changing Innovation: Why Speed Alone Isn’t a Strategy, 0:07:56

2023

Ethan Mollick says the models went from D-minus to B-minus performance with ChatGPT, and an A-minus level with an internet-connected model like Bing.

“Suddenly, they became B minus students in classes, and now, if you use a even more advanced model like Bing that's connected to the internet, now they're A minus students.”

Ethan Mollick · Why You (and Your Company) Need to Experiment with ChatGPT Now, 0:03:16

2023

The first productivity results on these tools came from two controlled experiments, one on business writing and one on coding.

“one is a controlled experiment that was done with people writing business writing, the other was a controlled experiment with coding”

Ethan Mollick · Why You (and Your Company) Need to Experiment with ChatGPT Now, 0:03:40

2023

Ethan Mollick says programmers have shifted from Stack Exchange to ChatGPT as their way of deciding what to code next.

“everyone in programming is using this to help with coding, right? So, that's sort of moved from Stack Exchange to ChatGPT, uh, as their method of figuring out what to code next.”

Ethan Mollick · Why You (and Your Company) Need to Experiment with ChatGPT Now, 0:06:45

2023

Ethan Mollick explains these AI systems predict the next word in response to a prompt while trying to please the user, which is why they sometimes make things up.

“they're predicting the next word that to to give you, the next token to give you in response to your prompt, and they're doing that to try and maximize your happiness”

Ethan Mollick · Why You (and Your Company) Need to Experiment with ChatGPT Now, 0:19:21

2023

Sam Ransbotham said a Pew Research study found that awareness and use of ChatGPT fell steadily as age increased.

“Pew Research had a study out recently that was talking about who had heard of ChatGPT and who was using it, and it was perfectly inversely correlated with age.”

Sam Ransbotham · Bonus Episode: Generative AI Trends for 2024 With Tom Davenport, 0:20:12

2023

ChatGPT passed 100 million registered users about two months after its November 30, 2022 launch.

“by the end of January 23, so two months after launch, it crosses 100 million registered users.”

Acquired · Google Part III: The AI Company, 2:26:49

2023

Aamer Baig said the pace of AI change has accelerated sharply since the launch of ChatGPT in 2023.

“but it's really accelerated since 2023, since the launch of ChatGPT.”

Aamer Baig · 297. Boards in the age of AI, 0:10:16

2025

Chris Benson argues that academics trying to stop students from using ChatGPT are teaching the wrong curriculum because such models will not go away.

“you're teaching the wrong thing then, because that, that that model is never going away.”

Chris Benson · Workforce dynamics in an AI-assisted world, 0:24:01

2025

Hayden Field says OpenAI launched Pulse the previous week and debuted an instant buy button the day before the interview.

“At least this week, they launched Pulse recently last week, and then yesterday they debuted their instant buy button.”

Hayden Field · The good, the bad, and the future of AI agents, 0:44:48

2026

Sarah Friar said people with finance job titles do only about a quarter of their ChatGPT tasks in finance, with another quarter in engineering and a quarter in marketing.

“if you show up with a finance job title today on our platform, you do about twenty five of your tasks on ChatGPT that are truly financial.”

Sarah Friar · Reid Hoffman and OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar on where AI goes from here, 0:24:39

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Huang claims AI programmable by human language raised the number of potential programmers from tens of millions to several billion.

“the number of programmers in the world just increased from from tens of millions to several billion.”

Jensen Huang · Jensen Huang Founder and CEO of Nvidia, 0:12:11

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Huang says over 100 million people had used ChatGPT, which he called the best software product ever made.

“you know, over 100 million people have used it, and there's no instruction manual.”

Jensen Huang · Jensen Huang Founder and CEO of Nvidia, 0:35:29

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Daniel Ek says he used ChatGPT to set up a coding environment in a few hours after about ten years away from coding.

“And I asked ChatGPT to help me. And pretty much on a few hours on a Sunday afternoon, I was up and running.”

Acquired · Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, 1:03:47

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Shopify built an internal ChatGPT-style tool, including one for searching its internal wikis, to encourage staff to use AI.

“we've built our own kind of internal ChatGPT instance equivalent. We have it for our internal wikis for search and discovery.”

Miqdad Jaffer · Micro Utility With Gen AI: Shopify's Miqdad Jaffer, 0:12:12

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Jaffer says many Shopify merchants were already using ChatGPT and similar tools before Shopify added its own AI features.

“we already had merchants that were using ChatGPT or whatever was out there to be able to prompt it”

Miqdad Jaffer · Micro Utility With Gen AI: Shopify's Miqdad Jaffer, 0:14:39

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A Chevron team member reported that a writing task for product management that took one or two weeks now takes about one hour with ChatGPT.

“in the past it took me maybe one or two weeks. Now it takes me one hour to get this done.”

Ellen Nielsen · Operational Safety With AI: Chevron's Ellen Nielsen, 0:19:17

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Iavor Bojinov says ChatGPT can give different answers to two users who write the same prompt.

“So think something like ChatGPT, me and you can write the exact same prompt, and it would actually give us two different answers.”

Iavor Bojinov · Setting AI Projects Up for Success, 0:02:30

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The guest argues that skills learned on early ChatGPT versions transfer to more powerful later models.

“if you've developed skills and became familiar with the early versions of ChatGPT, you're you're able to, you know, use more powerful versions of the models as they come about.”

Guest · The AI Skills You Should Be Building Now, 0:26:27

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The GPT in ChatGPT stands for generative pre-trained transformer, which differs from the economic term general purpose technology.

“The GPT in ChatGPT is generative pre-trained transformers.”

Rana el Kaliouby · Debunking AI myths, with Jeremy Kahn, 0:05:25

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Kahn says some schools have banned ChatGPT and similar tools, which he considers a mistake; he prefers integrating AI with clear rules.

“I do not think you should ban the use of the technology, which some schools have.”

Jeremy Kahn · Debunking AI myths, with Jeremy Kahn, 0:26:53

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Shervin Khodabandeh says BCG ran a large controlled study with MIT, Harvard and Wharton in which about a thousand consultants were given ChatGPT to work with.

“BCG did one of the largest controlled studies with MIT, Harvard and Wharton, where we looked at a thousand strong consultants and they were given chatgpt to work with.”

Shervin Khodabandeh · The Risks of Too Much AI: Fortune’s Jeremy Kahn, 0:04:47

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Khodabandeh says that on core consulting tasks such as business strategy and problem solving, the BCG study found generative AI did not perform as well as on creative tasks.

“But on things that consultants are supposed to excel at, like, you know, business strategy, problem solving, like, what is the best strategy for a company in Southeast Asia that's trying to enter a market?”

Shervin Khodabandeh · The Risks of Too Much AI: Fortune’s Jeremy Kahn, 0:05:17

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Bret Taylor credits the creation of GPT-3, GPT-4 and ChatGPT, built by people including some who have left, as the reason OpenAI exists in its current form.

“I wouldn't be in this chair if not for the creation of GPT three, GPT four, ChatGPT, and it's transformed society.”

Bret Taylor · How agentic AI will save customer service, with Bret Taylor, 0:11:56

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Gomez says Cohere will not build a ChatGPT competitor and will instead build a platform and products that help enterprises adopt language models.

“We're not going to build a chat GPT competitor. What we wanna build is a a platform and a series of products to enable enterprises to adopt this technology and and make it valuable.”

Aidan Gomez · Model Plateaus and Enterprise AI Adoption with Cohere's Aidan Gomez, 0:04:11

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Matt Garman said ChatGPT was the first AI product that convinced him the technology was real, thanks to its interface.

“I think ChatGPT was just a transformational product. Uh, it was a it was a great UI, and it really unlocked for everyone what was possible.”

Matt Garman · Why CEO Matt Garman is willing to bet AWS on AI, 1:08:02

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Sarah Friar says OpenAI's controller uses ChatGPT to unify data and code accounts-payable invoices, which shortens the financial close.

“Using things like ChatGPT to unify data from different sources, she's using it to code AP invoices, so it shortens our close, actually, which is something all controllers think about.”

Sarah Friar · What an AI-powered finance function of the future looks like, 0:02:39

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Sarah Friar says OpenAI built an investor-relations custom GPT fed with past diligence answers and its management presentation, and told it not to use outside sources.

“We took the time to tell it, don't go external for answers, because there's a lot of fake news written about the company.”

Sarah Friar · What an AI-powered finance function of the future looks like, 0:03:39

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Sarah Friar says Minnesota uses ChatGPT to translate for non-English-speaking immigrants, saving hours of staff time and hundreds of thousands of dollars monthly.

“And in cutting down all that translation, they're literally saving hours of people's time, hundreds of thousands of dollars of cost monthly.”

Sarah Friar · What an AI-powered finance function of the future looks like, 0:13:39

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Sarah Friar says Mercado Libre's CTO told an OpenAI event that the company uses ChatGPT to autonomously manage customer-service decisions.

“Mercado Libre was actually at our event last week, so I got to actually hear their CTO say to the whole crowd how they're using ChatGPT to autonomously manage customer service decisions.”

Sarah Friar · What an AI-powered finance function of the future looks like, 0:15:16

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Praveen Akkiraju credits the release of ChatGPT, because it was so accessible, with unleashing corporate adoption of large language models.

“And it's largely, I think, the ChatGPT moment, um, which unleashed this because, you know, it was so accessible.”

Praveen Akkiraju · An Advanced Look at AI Agents, Part 2 | #868, 0:29:09

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Linda Yao says ChatGPT put AI in the hands of consumers and in the mental model of every executive.

“But what ChatGPT did a couple years ago was really put AI at the fingertips of every consumer and really put it into the mental model of every C-suite member.”

Linda Yao · Speed, Ease, and Expertise With AI: Lenovo’s Linda Yao, 0:03:50

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Aaron Levie says GitHub Copilot launched about a year or two before ChatGPT, giving developers their breakthrough AI moment 12 to 18 months earlier than consumers.

“GitHub Copilot was introduced about a year or two before ChatGPT, so developers actually had their ChatGPT moment at at least twelve to eighteen months months before everybody had their ChatGPT moment on the consumer side.”

Aaron Levie · The enterprise AI revolution is underway, with Box’s Aaron Levie, 0:07:07

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Aaron Levie says deep research features in AI assistants take about five to ten minutes of thinking time to produce much longer answers.

“The deep research moment of of this paradigm is is much longer answers i in terms of the amount of content you get takes about five or ten minutes of kind of thinking time for these AI models.”

Aaron Levie · The enterprise AI revolution is underway, with Box’s Aaron Levie, 0:08:39

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Language models generate output one token at a time, each being the most probable next token, until an end token is produced.

“And so really, what's coming out is the most probable tokens following your instructions. And those are produced one at a time”

Daniel Whitenack · AI in the shadows: From hallucinations to blackmail, 0:09:59

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Alexandra Samuel says the AI-written instructions can be pasted into the instructions field of a custom GPT or a Claude project.

“you can also take that and paste it into the instructions field on a custom AI assistant, like a custom GPT or a Claude project.”

Alexandra Samuel · How to Build an AI Assistant for Any Challenge, 0:05:20

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Alexandra Samuel says research tools she once built at great effort are now integrated into platforms like Claude and ChatGPT.

“all this stuff that I was doing, like, so arduously and painfully and expensively six months ago is now really well integrated into platforms like Claude and ChatGPT.”

Alexandra Samuel · How to Build an AI Assistant for Any Challenge, 0:13:25

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Alexandra Samuel says some paid ChatGPT subscriptions still use users' conversation transcripts as training data.

“even some of the paid subscriptions to ChatGPT still turn your transcripts into training data.”

Alexandra Samuel · How to Build an AI Assistant for Any Challenge, 0:16:37

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Alexandra Samuel pays for ChatGPT's team edition, which requires only two seats and by default keeps conversations out of training data.

“I pay for the team edition of ChatGPT because when you have the team edition, which only requires you to pay for two seats, then your conversations stay out of training data by default.”

Alexandra Samuel · How to Build an AI Assistant for Any Challenge, 0:16:37

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Amit Joshi says a bank he works with in Asia has used a triage engine to route queries among different language models since the early days of ChatGPT.

“there's a bank that I'm working with in Asia that has had this system in place pretty much since the early days of ChatGPT.”

Amit Joshi · Are You Considering Chinese AI In Your Strategy?, 0:24:59

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Kenny Song says he enjoys OpenAI's o3 model in ChatGPT and the Cursor tool, and expects tools to become more agentic.

“I really loved O3 as a model in in ChatGpt, and I love using cursor, and I'm excited for these tools to become more and more agentic over time.”

Kenny Song · GenAI risks and global adoption, 0:40:54

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Rick Kobayashi refers to ChatGPT-5 as having recently been released at the time of recording.

“yeah, now the Chatgpt five is released.”

Rick Kobayashi · GenAI risks and global adoption, 0:39:13

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Kenny Song says early ChatGPT models like GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 answered from a single forward pass, whereas newer models search the internet and reason.

“Originally it was just like three, five and GPT four, that, uh, just answer a question based on a forward pass of the model.”

Kenny Song · GenAI risks and global adoption, 0:41:21

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Microsoft already ran responsible AI systems at scale for GitHub Copilot before ChatGPT's release and adapted them to new risks.

“We had already had, you know, at scale, generative AI, responsible AI systems running in production, for example, for GitHub Copilot, and we had to adapt them to new risk.”

Sarah Bird · How Microsoft is democratizing safe AI, 0:28:45

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Jeetu Patel describes a large language model as one that understands human language, so humans no longer have to learn the machine's language.

“a large language model was a model that actually understood human language”

Jeetu Patel · Never Fight a Megatrend: Cisco’s Jeetu Patel, 0:06:23

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Fradin recounts a large European bank that held a global call in which a 28-year-old banker spent an hour teaching colleagues to use ChatGPT.

“And they did a global call for everyone in the investment bank for this guy to spend an hour walking people through how to use ChatGPT”

Russ Fradin · The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About, 0:00:20

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Jacqui Canney says ServiceNow's engineers and product leaders were working on AI well before ChatGPT became widely discussed.

“ServiceNow has had these amazing engineers and product leaders who've been thinking about this for a long time, a long time before even people talked about, like, chatgpt.”

Jacqui Canney · Disintegrating the Org Chart: ServiceNow’s Jacqui Canney, 0:02:57

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The host says OpenAI announced advertisements on ChatGPT and stated that the ads will not influence which products appear in answers.

“OpenAI announced that they are rolling out advertisements on ChatGPT, and they've actually said that these ads won't influence what products you see in answer to queries”

Rana el Kaliouby · What is agentic commerce? Stripe’s CRO of AI explains., 0:13:39

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Hindman says that at a meeting with growers in Pasco, Washington, all had heard of ChatGPT and almost all used it on the farm.

“how many of you, uh, have heard of ChatGPT? And all their hands went up. And I said, how many of you use it on the farm? And almost all their hands went up.”

Jahmy Hindman · John Deere's AI vision for future farms, 0:26:35

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His former firm used the OpenAI version offered through Microsoft instead of allowing ChatGPT directly.

“we couldn't let people use Chat G P T, so we used the open A I version of it through Microsoft”

Andy Baldwin · The CIO Agenda for AI (with IBM Consulting), 0:15:11

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Datadog gave ChatGPT licenses to every non-developer employee who wanted one, according to Emilio Escobar.

“we just got Chatgpt licenses for everyone, and it was like, whoever wants it, gets it.”

Emilio Escobar · The CISO Playbook for AI Agents | Datadog, 0:03:00

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Ben Moore says Discovered Labs research found ChatGPT's retrieval engine allocated almost a third of its retrieval slots to Reddit.

“it had allocated like an inse, I think, almost a 3rd of its basically retrieval slots for Reddit.”

Ben Moore · How to get discovered in AI search, 0:27:32

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Ben Moore says most retrieved Reddit threads were rejected at citation time but still helped ground the model's answer.

“Most of those were actually rejected at citation time, so they basically are kind of used to ground the model.”

Ben Moore · How to get discovered in AI search, 0:28:06

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Ben Moore says Discovered Labs found traces of Reddit content in model weights, particularly for ChatGPT and also Gemini.

“there is traces of basically Reddit showing up in the weights, particularly from ChatGpt.”

Ben Moore · How to get discovered in AI search, 0:28:31

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Ben Moore says model training cycles have shortened from a new ChatGPT version every nine to twelve months to much more frequent updates.

“the training cycles are actually coming down. So when we 1st started, it was like, cool, we have like a new version of ChatGPT once every like 09:12 months, right?”

Ben Moore · How to get discovered in AI search, 0:51:26

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