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Reid Hoffman

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

But part of it is the instruments can make better sounds. I can't reproduce those sounds in my vocal cords. So when I play the cello or the guitar, I'm playing new sounds. And I can only play those sounds with that instrument. And they're superior to a human sound. In various vectors. So now I have to adjust to I'm talented with my hands and the guitar.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

But part of it is the instruments can make better sounds. I can't reproduce those sounds in my vocal cords. So when I play the cello or the guitar, I'm playing new sounds. And I can only play those sounds with that instrument. And they're superior to a human sound. In various vectors. So now I have to adjust to I'm talented with my hands and the guitar.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

But part of it is the instruments can make better sounds. I can't reproduce those sounds in my vocal cords. So when I play the cello or the guitar, I'm playing new sounds. And I can only play those sounds with that instrument. And they're superior to a human sound. In various vectors. So now I have to adjust to I'm talented with my hands and the guitar.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

I can make better sounds with the AI doing it. And the AI can make sounds, but I can still add something to the mix. And I'm adjusting as I integrate it in and I'm shaping what we create and I'm adjusting myself to doing it. And that's the progress of human technology. But the new zone is this is a set of different creativity and cognitive and expression that's totally new from before.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

I can make better sounds with the AI doing it. And the AI can make sounds, but I can still add something to the mix. And I'm adjusting as I integrate it in and I'm shaping what we create and I'm adjusting myself to doing it. And that's the progress of human technology. But the new zone is this is a set of different creativity and cognitive and expression that's totally new from before.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

I can make better sounds with the AI doing it. And the AI can make sounds, but I can still add something to the mix. And I'm adjusting as I integrate it in and I'm shaping what we create and I'm adjusting myself to doing it. And that's the progress of human technology. But the new zone is this is a set of different creativity and cognitive and expression that's totally new from before.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

And then you add, and it also is capable of being agentic. What's agentic? It can operate on its own.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

And then you add, and it also is capable of being agentic. What's agentic? It can operate on its own.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

And then you add, and it also is capable of being agentic. What's agentic? It can operate on its own.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

Yes, exactly. And that's why I chose to deliberately steer into it because that's kind of at the root of what most people go is like, am I losing my agency? Will I be the agent of this thing? Exactly. And that's why I deliberately steered into the fear with the title super agency. You can go, oh my God, AI is coming for me, or oh my God, I can use AI.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

Yes, exactly. And that's why I chose to deliberately steer into it because that's kind of at the root of what most people go is like, am I losing my agency? Will I be the agent of this thing? Exactly. And that's why I deliberately steered into the fear with the title super agency. You can go, oh my God, AI is coming for me, or oh my God, I can use AI.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

Yes, exactly. And that's why I chose to deliberately steer into it because that's kind of at the root of what most people go is like, am I losing my agency? Will I be the agent of this thing? Exactly. And that's why I deliberately steered into the fear with the title super agency. You can go, oh my God, AI is coming for me, or oh my God, I can use AI.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

You only get to the positive future by taking the steering wheel. And that doesn't mean that it's perfect. In every technology, your agency transforms. It isn't that you had the exact same agency before, plus some new things. It's new agency. Trade-offs. But so far, every new agency has been massively better than the old agencies. The thesis is, and this one can be too.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

You only get to the positive future by taking the steering wheel. And that doesn't mean that it's perfect. In every technology, your agency transforms. It isn't that you had the exact same agency before, plus some new things. It's new agency. Trade-offs. But so far, every new agency has been massively better than the old agencies. The thesis is, and this one can be too.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

You only get to the positive future by taking the steering wheel. And that doesn't mean that it's perfect. In every technology, your agency transforms. It isn't that you had the exact same agency before, plus some new things. It's new agency. Trade-offs. But so far, every new agency has been massively better than the old agencies. The thesis is, and this one can be too.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

When we did the agricultural revolution to the industrial revolution, it was difficult. All of a sudden, people moving into cities, not having jobs, being displaced from farms, a stack of different things. And how do I learn these new jobs? The new jobs aren't created yet and all of this stuff. People say, why are you irritated by the critics? Not irritated by the critics.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

When we did the agricultural revolution to the industrial revolution, it was difficult. All of a sudden, people moving into cities, not having jobs, being displaced from farms, a stack of different things. And how do I learn these new jobs? The new jobs aren't created yet and all of this stuff. People say, why are you irritated by the critics? Not irritated by the critics.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

When we did the agricultural revolution to the industrial revolution, it was difficult. All of a sudden, people moving into cities, not having jobs, being displaced from farms, a stack of different things. And how do I learn these new jobs? The new jobs aren't created yet and all of this stuff. People say, why are you irritated by the critics? Not irritated by the critics.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

I think the critical process is a good thing for saying, how do we steer through the transition? Where do I predict will be the first major replacement areas is actually customer service. Because any place where we're trying to get the human being to just be on script, yeah, I can do the script better.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

I think the critical process is a good thing for saying, how do we steer through the transition? Where do I predict will be the first major replacement areas is actually customer service. Because any place where we're trying to get the human being to just be on script, yeah, I can do the script better.