HACKER Q&A
📣 ipnon

Anyone using GPT-4 as a co-founder?


It seems to have extraordinary insight into every facet of business and startups that I can imagine. As a team, I'm the better one at inventing a niche business model and writing software in the context of the whole technical architecture, but my relative shortcomings are glaring. In fact it seems like everything I don't know much about GPT-4 knows practically all there is to know! So far it has successfully helped me draft a specific business model in terms of discrete MVP features, narrowing down the whole problem space into the small set of things that can be demoed in about 1 month. I am confident that GPT-4 will be just as capable as we bring our startup into month 2.

If using an LLM as a co-founder is not completely feasible today surely it will be soon. We're clearly much closer to it being possible than impossible. What will this mean for the startup economy? You can imagine a world with more solo founders, less co-founder disputes, a world where founders need to only have expert-level specialty in 1 area because LLMs will fill in the rest of the knowledge gaps.

On the whole it looks like the cost of turning brilliant ideas into tangible products is quickly falling.

  👤 eternalban Accepted Answer ✓
It's not a co-founder if it doesn't have votes. If it has votes, what makes you think GPT-4 and you will always agree how to vote your shares? It's not a silent partner either since its a chat bot :} So it's an adviser.

I think the question you could ask is whether having a co-founder (with all the +/-) brings something critical to the equation that an adviser, however knowledgeable, does not.

[p.s. above is ignoring the standing issue of a hallucinating chat bot, which is an entirely different issue.]

👤 codingdave
"seems to...", "everything I don't know much about..."

Aren't these the same observations made about GPT-3? That its hallucinations sound pretty good to non-experts on any given topic?

👤 adt
OpenAI are using it internally a lot; they used it as a co-author on the GPT-4 paper, and 'with great impact on functions like support, sales, content moderation, and programming.'

Here's 25+ more of the first GPT-4 enterprise customers:

https://lifearchitect.ai/gpt-4#customers

👤 senthilnayagam
current gpt4 interface is pull not push, so you ask question and it would respond. if we can automate it further to make it context aware and also able to take or initiate actions it would be a game changer.

when the day comes I am willing to have AI as a cofounder or advisor as legally applicable. in fact I am more comfortable sharing ideas with bot which does not judge me or remember every of my past failures or behaviours like how humans do.