Reid Hoffman

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I've always had a belief that we evolve ourselves through technology.

Like these glasses, these are a piece of technology.

This podcast.

And that's actually how we evolve our state as human beings and who we are and so on.

And so I was like, okay, this AI thing, that's interesting.

So I'll go do that.

And I did it, symbolic systems is a multidisciplinary major, so it included psychology, included linguistics, included philosophy.

So did all of that as part of it.

And you went to Oxford and got a philosophy as well.

Yes, yes.

Well, what I concluded at Stanford was none of us understood what thinking and speaking was.

So here we are trying to build AI, and we have no sense of what that is.

Maybe philosophers did.

Went to Oxford and included philosophers didn't either.

And so give me, I mean, this is what year were you studying this stuff, roughly?

1985 to 1993.

To 1993.

In both Oxford and Stanford.

And so AI as we know it today in the context of the vernacular of this sort of notion of gen AI, et cetera.

I mean, the origin story, they tend to lazily go back.

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