ChatGPT's early growth looked unstable and low value, yet the empty text box was exactly what made it worth pursuing. This AI on Air clip is excerpted from a recent episode on the @davidsenra channel. The main speaker is Sam Altman @sama, co-founder and CEO of @OpenAI. ▷ About two months after ChatGPT launched, people inside the company still thought users were talking to it out of curiosity and that the growth did not represent sustainable value. The team even listed five or six other directions it could pursue. ▷ Someone reminded Altman that growth itself was rare and valuable. ChatGPT had the power of the Google text box: users could type anything and get the right response. If the empty box worked for Google, the team should double down on it. ▷ ChatGPT had no feed, network effect, or memory at the time, so it did not fit prevailing Silicon Valley product wisdom. But it was growing and highly flexible. The team went all in on ChatGPT, and the result was great.