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co-founder / ceo @every | | how to think, create, and relate with @ChatGPTapp

New York, NY

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Joined January 2009

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Reid Hoffman ( @reidhoffman ) thinks studying philosophy is more important for entrepreneurs than an MBA. Reid is co-founder of LinkedIn, investor at Greylock, podcaster, author, and early backer of @OpenAI . But before he did any of these things, he almost became a philosophy

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The same person invented Aspirin and heroin…11 days apart 🤯

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I spent Christmas programming with ChatGPT. Some observations:

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GPT-4 does drug discovery. Give it a currently available drug and it can: - Find compounds with similar properties - Modify them to make sure they're not patented - Purchase them from a supplier (even including sending an email with a purchase order)

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How GPT-3 will turn all of your notes into an *actual* second brain:

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What the hell? When did this happen??

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This is without a doubt the most incredible email I have ever received.

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HOLY SHIT they built it

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How to turn any book into a chatbot using GPT-3:

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Let's see if GPT-4 can build ChatGPT in 10 prompts or less:

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Watching @karpathy build GPT from scratch on one screen, and using ChatGPT to explain what he's doing on the other. It's LLMs all the way down.

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Watch @sama build a custom ChatGPT using private knowledge—and share it publicly in about 3 minutes

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The CEO of DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, went on @ezraklein to talk about the future of AI and science. These are his book recommendations if you want to expand your mind and see what an AGI future looks like: Permutation City, by Greg Egan — a wild story about how interesting and

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If you’re a writer, this is one of the most useful ChatGPT prompts:

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How Sora works (a layman's explanation)

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I wrote about what I think is a deeply under-appreciated fact about AI models like GPT-4: They're reasoning engines not knowledge databases

GPT-4 Is a Reasoning Engine

Reason is only as good as the information we give it

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Window seats are my favorite interior design element and it’s not even close

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OpenAI launched GPT-4 Turbo today. It’s incredible: - 128k token context window. 300 pages of a book 🚀 - More control. GPT-4 will respond with valid JSON, and can call multiple functions - Better knowledge. THE API NOW COMES WITH RETRIEVAL built in. And knowledge cutoff is now

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Update as per @NickADobos it works if you don’t ask nicely:

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1. The fact that D’Angelo is still on the board should dispel any of the rumors about all of this somehow being a plot to kill OpenAI for poe’s benefit 2. Bret Taylor continues to be one of the most sought after board members in Silicon Valley. He must give good meeting 3.

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We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo. We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.

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I loaded every episode of my favorite podcast into GPT-3, and made a chatbot with it. It works! And it has crazy implications for the future. Here's an essay covering: - How I did it - Chatbots as a new content format - What the future looks like

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I Built an AI Chatbot Based on My Favorite Podcast

Here’s how I built it and what I learned about the future

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News!! I am now a @Sequoia Scout! I’m investing in early founders building in AI. If you’re building something new, send me a DM 🙂

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I made a chatbot based on @hubermanlab ! Ask it any question and it will scan through Huberman Lab podcast transcripts and return the answer using GPT-3. (You can even ask it if Cell Press journal is high quality or not....😉)

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ChatGPT just launched a new feature!! You can @-mention any custom GPT from within ChatGPT—almost like Slack or Discord. It's a gamechanger! Walkthrough here:

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Breaking: Michael Lewis has been following Sam Altman around for the last 6 months. New book incoming....

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Rumor: ChatGPT is getting a memory. This is a HUGE deal. It is on the way to becoming a copilot for your mind. This feature takes all of the power of Custom Instructions and makes it 10x more valuable. - never have to explain yourself twice—ChatGPT will remember who you

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It’s incredibly good at helping you get started in a new project. It takes all of the research and thinking and looking things up and eliminates it… In 5 minutes you can have the stub of something working that previously would’ve taken a few hours to get up and running.

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New from @every : Automatically clean your file system using GPT-4. We built a little tool that uses AI to find the ideal folder structure for your Desktop, Documents, and Downloads folders—and then keeps your files in order, automatically. Organizing is over.

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Reddit is freaking out over LLaMA 3

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If you find yourself constantly coming up with big plans and grand visions and never actually shipping anything, ChatGPT can help you. Just add this to your Custom Instructions: "Help me find the smallest and simplest possible version of what I'd like to build. Encourage me to

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I loaded journal entries from the past 10 years into GPT-3 and then started asking it questions: - What do I need to learn? - What do I not realize about myself? - What's obvious to everyone around me, but not to me? - What are my deepest hopes? The results are...pretty wild.

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For one, I wouldn’t be able to do any of this if I didn’t know how to code. Right now it enables me to do stuff I already know how to do, much faster. But there’s a lot of built up expertise that goes into knowing what to ask it to do, and understanding its output.

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Who did this?!

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OpenAI just replaced a ton of developer tooling / infrastructure that used to be required to build AI apps. Lots of people can delete a lot of code tomorrow (and a lot of startups need to figure out why they exist.)

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One of the most mind blowing books I’ve read in a long time:

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I’d say it probably doubles my output as a programmer, and simultaneously increases my code quality. I feel way smarter using it.

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When one of the most impressive contributors to AI says that 80% of his code is now written by AI… …big thing are coming for the world of programming, dev tools, infra et al. Perhaps one doesn’t need to learn to code after all?

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@NickADobos Wow yeah you’re right it works. Wild!

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Introducing: How Do You Use ChatGPT? 🚀 It's a weekly show where I interview the most interesting people in the world about how they use @ChatGPT in their work and their lives—and show you every detail. The first episode is with @shl , CEO of @Gumroad and @flexile . It's not

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I’m not against the kind of longevity experiments he’s trying, but afaik the thing most closely associated with longevity is healthy relationships. I have no idea why that’s not part of the plan here.

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I’m 45, a billionaire, obsessed with staying young — and hard to date

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Everybody always asks: “what is GPT-4?” No one ever asks: “how is GPT-4?”

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I loaded journal entries from the past 10 years into GPT-3 and started asking it questions. Here's what I asked, and what it said:

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yasssss you can now connect Google Drive to ChatGPT

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Absolutely based Anna Brockman.

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It’s very clear that this changes programming forever, and gets us way closer to the dream of being able to tell a computer what to do in natural language. But it’s still limited in certain important areas.

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I’ve definitely noticed the quality of GPT-4’s code go down the last few weeks. Anyone else? I hope they fix it!

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Over break I built a little chat bot that uses GPT-3 for personal growth. Here's how it works:

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Source: This comes up in the risk section of the GPT-4 paper. Malevolent uses of this technology are scary. But man, if you're using it ethically...it's so powerful.

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It also changes what it means to be a programmer. I spend a lot of time now thinking about how to write prompts—where previously I might’ve been Googling a problem or trying to write a function from scratch.

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Even more impressive is that it can even do UI—if you ask it for a React app that looks a certain way it’ll build it for you, and it works pretty well!

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This is a technology-driven change that’s the closest thing to magic I’ve ever seen. The next couple of years are going to be wild.

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Your next big business idea is hiding on the internet. @stephsmithio can show you exactly where to find it. She’s the host of the @a16z podcast and the creator of Internet Pipes—the best way to learn how to do deep research to find the gold hidden in all of the nooks and

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Vibe I am getting without referencing data: A lot of VCs and founders are realizing right now how hard it is to build a truly generational company It is still 100% possible, it’s just still very rare. The glut of VC funding in the 2010s era was predicated on the idea that

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Today’s show might be a first in the history of podcasts: @GeoffreyLitt and I built an app together using @ChatGPTapp and @Replit in under 60 minutes—during our interview. We wanted to show how AI and ChatGPT change who gets to build software and how they usher in a world where

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Lots of people in my life suddenly have COVID. Anyone else observing the same?

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so there's a rumor going around that GPT-5 is secretly out in the wild so OpenAI can benchmark it...

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I recorded my therapy session yesterday and transcribed it using Whisper. Now going to use GPT-3 to summarize it, pull out patterns in my thinking, and help me look at things in a new way. The future is wild.

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Sometimes Miami moves to you

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ChatGPT has changed my sense of self. It has made me see my intellect and its role in the creative process differently than I did before. It doesn’t replace me; it just changes what I do. Previously I was doing each part of the creative process myself. Many of those parts of

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Most problems in life can be boiled down to two things: 1. You don’t say what you think 2. You don’t do what you say A successful life requires integrating thoughts, feelings, language, and behavior. Getting clear on which type of error you tend to make is the first step.

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Tyler Cowen ( @tylercowen ) is an economist, a prolific writer, and a polymath. He’s also a big user of @ChatGPTapp for learning, reading, travel, and more. In this episode, I deep dive with him on how he uses it in his own life and work—and what that might mean for the future of

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This is one of my favorite things to do with Claude

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Broke: reading business books. Woke: having Claude read a business book, and then implement its advice step-by-step.

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cool new tool alert: ChatGPT prompt builder

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The future of software is bespoke apps customized by AI. This week in @every , I wrote about my experience using @replit to do exactly this—and to muse about what it means for SaaS going forward:

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What Comes After SaaS?

Bespoke apps for everyone—customized by AI

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Y'all are sleeping on how good Claude is for writing. It's really good now.

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If you want a glimpse of what you’ll be doing with generative AI in 10 years, you’ll find a lot of it on @thesephist ’s laptop…

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This week I built a custom GPT that connects to Notion. Now I can just @ my GPT and have it write a summary of the chat into my journal!!!

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@keshavchan this guy is awesome tbh

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Companies that can use these tools will go a lot faster, with far fewer engineers than before. And individuals working on side projects will have a ton more leverage to get more done with fewer resources than ever before.

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I am currently running the same coding task in: - Devin - Github Copilot Workspace - Claude - ChatGPT-4o Let the battle of the bots begin!

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1. Notes will be automatically tagged and linked, no manual work required. 2. Notes will be automatically enriched and synthesized to help you find patterns. 3. CoPilot-like functionality will resurface key information from previous notes in-context as you type.

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We cracked $1mm in revenue for the year @every ! Very proud of this team. I feel incredibly lucky that we get to do this together.

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Honestly, this is all just deeply sad. Something very special broke this weekend. There will be new things to be excited about soon, but right now I feel grief.

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Organizing our notes is probably a waste of time. Instead, in the future, our notes will be organized for us by GPT-3 and other LLMs. Here's how it will work:

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The End of Organizing

How GPT-3 will turn your notes into an *actual* second brain

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Okay y'all are absolutely SLEEPING on @NotionHQ AI It can take a journal entry from me and automatically: - Summarize the entry - Tag the books and people I mention - List out the emotions I'm feeling - Find the values present in my writing Truly wild:

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This book has more “oh shit!” moments per page than anything I’ve read in a while

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Pre covid vs. Post covid 😂

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If you want to read about this in more detail I wrote an entire essay covering what's possible:

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The End of Organizing

How GPT-3 will turn your notes into an *actual* second brain

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The next popular programming language is English. Here’s my review of the 24 hours I’ve spent with @Github ’s Copilot Workspaces product:

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The Next Big Programming Language Is English

I spent 24 hours with AI coding assistant Github Copilot Workspace

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OMG I GOT PLUGINS

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One big difference in the ChatGPT API is that it lets you send an array of messages for completions. This is incredibly useful! Especially since it looks like you can insert a 3rd party "system" role that could help guide the assistant in certain circumstances. EXCITING TIMES!

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Anne-Laure Le Cunff ( @neuranne ) might be the most productive person I’ve ever met. She’s simultaneously running a successful business, writing a book being published by a major publisher, and getting a PhD in neuroscience. She says it’s only possible because of ChatGPT. It

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Them: "Trust me, I've totally changed!" The change:

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📣 News: The Everything Bundle is now a media company called @Every ! - We're structured as a writer collective - We moved on to our own homegrown platform - We raised a pre-seed round from @EricStromberg at Bedrock Read our launch essay:

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Wow Gemini 1.5 Pro found an anecdote for an essay I'm writing hidden in 500k tokens in my prompt. It's sort of perfect! This would be very hard to do with RAG:

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Friends don’t let friends use ChatGPT 3.5

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If you like this I wrote a bunch more about some recent AI explorations here!

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I Built an AI Chatbot Based on My Favorite Podcast

Here’s how I built it and what I learned about the future

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Absolutely outraged they use Google Meets

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I interviewed @ShaneAParrish ! We talked about: - How to make make mental models actually useful and not just decision decoration - How learning works - How he reads And a ton more!

The Truth About Mental Models with Shane Parrish

Farnam Street’s founder talks about learning loops, how to read, and how to avoid bullshit

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How to become a visionary:

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3 types of good articles: - Say something new and useful - Say something we already know and make us FEEL it - Take something complicated and make it simple

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This week @OpenAI gave GPT-4 the ability to use tools natively in their API. This instantly makes it easier to build powerful LLM use cases like agents with far less code than ever before. I dig into what it all means here:

GPT-4 Can Use Tools Now—That’s a Big Deal

What "function calling" is, how it works, and what it means

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For another, it sometimes gets stuck on subtler issues. For example, I was building a Flask app with database migrations and running into a cryptic error. ChatGPT led me in the wrong direction because it was giving me instructions for a previous version of Flask.

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@ZinaSarif I know it’s heartbreaking haha

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If ChatGPT is down you can almost always just use the OpenAI playground instead, the results are pretty similar.

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David Perell ( @david_perell ) is one of the best known internet writers of his generation. @ChatGPTapp has become a go-to tool in his arsenal for creating great work. I dove deep with him on how he uses ChatGPT for: - Doing deep reading of old books - Finding anecdotes that

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I made the greatest trade of my life with @beyroutey in 2019: We bought @nvidia shares when they were trading at $33. They’re worth nearly $800 today. Now that Gemini Pro 1.5 sports a 1 million token context window, we wondered: could it help us find our next $NVDA? So we sat

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So…..I built an AI chatbot that interprets and visualizes dreams. It uses GPT-3 and DALL-E…and the results are pretty awesome:

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Saying that you can’t build a sustaining advantage with GPT-3 because everyone has access to it is a little like saying the same thing about React

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I had to Google around for a while but I finally found an answer. So things like versioning, or uncommon corner case errors are a little harder for it to handle.

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