Corey and Grant walk backward through roughly four years of modern generative AI, starting with late-2026 frontier models and agents and tracing the path back to ChatGPT’s November 2022 launch and the 2017 Transformer paper.
The episode focuses on what changed at each stage: reasoning, tools, multimodality, long context, agents, open-source competition, and the shift from chatbots toward long-running computer work. They also revisit their own first encounters with ChatGPT, debate open access versus AI safety, and close with long-term predictions about robotics, machine labor, scientific progress, and who should have access to increasingly capable systems.
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