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GPT-4 Outperforms Humans in Pitch Deck Effectiveness

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Re: GPT-4 Outperforms Humans in Pitch Deck Effectiveness

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

"In addition, my plan guarantees every child a free kitten or puppy, along with the aforementioned immortality."

Sure, but a human could write that too. Surely the onus is on the investor to assess how realistic they think the founders' claims are.

They fell for Juicero and Theranos, can we *really expect that from them?

Re: GPT-4 Outperforms Humans in Pitch Deck Effectiveness

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The key question here isn’t so much whether GPT-4 beats the actual human decks as much as what it had to fabricate to do so. The humans are probably constrained by things like “reality” and “what their business has done in it” while GPT-4 could make up anything it wanted. A fair comparison would be to humans given the same prompt and told to invent whatever facts they wanted.

The sensible way to do this experiment would be to have GPT-4 create pitch decks for the same businesses that the humans pitched, putting the constraints of those businesses in the prompts. I skimmed the article and it's not clear to me whether they did that.

Amusingly, the article itself seemed more like a pitch than a scientific experiment.

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The key question here isn’t so much whether GPT-4 beats the actual human decks as much as what it had to fabricate to do so. The humans are probably constrained by things like “reality” and “what their business has done in it” while GPT-4 could make up anything it wanted. A fair comparison would be to humans given the same prompt and told to invent whatever facts they wanted.

The humans are probably constrained by things like “reality” and “what their business has done in it” while GPT-4 could make up anything it wanted. You clearly know different founders than I do.

True.

Re: GPT-4 Outperforms Humans in Pitch Deck Effectiveness

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I find it weird to compare GPT-4 to not expert humans (which this did - they seemed to have just sampled pitch decks for funded companies). GPT-4 generally will beat non-experts. What you want to see is a comparison to say pitch deck consultants - it's also more useful to evaluate whether AI or a human should help you build one. This does suggest at minimum though that if you are a founder that GPT-4 will likely prov…

> GPT-4 generally will beat non-experts.

Just a nitpicking, but I would say GPT can easily beat untrained people. Clearly, GPT has already learned from all the good examples available on the internet, and it's nothing weird about that trained ones mostly outperform untrained ones.

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The key question here isn’t so much whether GPT-4 beats the actual human decks as much as what it had to fabricate to do so. The humans are probably constrained by things like “reality” and “what their business has done in it” while GPT-4 could make up anything it wanted. A fair comparison would be to humans given the same prompt and told to invent whatever facts they wanted.

This is what I imagine now: "I am a serial entrepreneur who has created three companies with a valuation of over $100,000,000, and I led one company into an IPO." lol

Re: GPT-4 Outperforms Humans in Pitch Deck Effectiveness

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The key question here isn’t so much whether GPT-4 beats the actual human decks as much as what it had to fabricate to do so. The humans are probably constrained by things like “reality” and “what their business has done in it” while GPT-4 could make up anything it wanted. A fair comparison would be to humans given the same prompt and told to invent whatever facts they wanted.

Great point! Since they are not showing the decks, for all we know these GPT4 pitches may have been proposing they found a cure for cancer.

Again, not a million miles from other real world founder decks you could care to mention…

Re: GPT-4 Outperforms Humans in Pitch Deck Effectiveness

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The key question here isn’t so much whether GPT-4 beats the actual human decks as much as what it had to fabricate to do so. The humans are probably constrained by things like “reality” and “what their business has done in it” while GPT-4 could make up anything it wanted. A fair comparison would be to humans given the same prompt and told to invent whatever facts they wanted.

I wonder, if I could feed true facts into a prompt and consistently get well written decks on the other side. I think I’ll try that.
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