Barry Diller
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I think probably the best way I can say it is hold on to naivete.
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?
But living in an environment where the corrosiveness of the day
grinds at you and makes you worried, least cynical.
And all of that is just something you got to fight against it.
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.
And I was very lucky.
I got to participate in that revolution, which started really around 95 when the internet started to get used by ordinary folk.
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.
And that was definitely a radical transformation.
We're certainly at the brink of the next revolution.
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
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 first time I used ChatGPT, which was before it was released, and I thought, well, this is frigging magic.
And we're past that very early stage.
We're into the great unknown here.
It's going to have profound effect.
I don't know to what exact extent.
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.
we're so far past that now in so many different areas that I can't,