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Barry Diller

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The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

I think probably the best way I can say it is hold on to naivete.

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

Do not let the fact that you are, of course, learning things, and learning is, of course, how could you say it's anything but good?

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

But living in an environment where the corrosiveness of the day

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

grinds at you and makes you worried, least cynical.

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

And all of that is just something you got to fight against it.

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

content business into the worlds that I've been in for the last 25 or so years, which is the world of internet tech life with Expedia and dozens and dozens of other websites, commerce sites, etc.

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

And I was very lucky.

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

I got to participate in that revolution, which started really around 95 when the internet started to get used by ordinary folk.

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

And I was there in that period and able to have this wonderful field kind of open there just for the, so to speak, grabbing and learning.

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

And that was definitely a radical transformation.

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

We're certainly at the brink of the next revolution.

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

If you were sitting in 1995 or 2000, at the beginning of the things you did not know, and there were plenty of those, there was nothing that

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

cracked your mind and astounded you and said oh my god this is beyond me this is magic you could master it it wasn't hard to master ai will it master us certainly in some cases it probably will

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

The first time I used ChatGPT, which was before it was released, and I thought, well, this is frigging magic.

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

And we're past that very early stage.

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

We're into the great unknown here.

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

It's going to have profound effect.

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

I don't know to what exact extent.

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

I know that for my businesses, we are racing, and we've been doing this for years, and anyone in business has been using machine learning for a decade or more.

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

we're so far past that now in so many different areas that I can't,