2023 James Cham predictions

generative AI and getting comfortable with the weird

AI is early

• nothing’s been done yet

• don’t dismiss “just a wrapper on GPT”

• experiment with OpenAI playground, richer way to think of things you might want to build

Generative AI

• data structures don’t matter at all

• workflows from everything to everything else will be like glue

• GPT became easier to access

• visual opens your mind, but is smaller market than language/text

Listening at scale

• Unstructured text into structured text

• Turn flows into stocks

Founders exploring AI

• Only way to find out is by doing

• Enough customers interested, enough ways to learn

• Need to run and find out

Feedback loops

• Use-cases are happening now

• Web 1996, right strategy is pay attention to see what’s working

• Cultural mores will change

• Most uncomfortable - weird, creepy, on the edge