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Reid Hoffman

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

You'll probably get something that sounds very much like the earlier one, even if it's a little different, because it's like best guess of how experts think about impressionist painting and what Monet was so revolutionary at.

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

Here's some of the fun stuff. So I was beginning with some of the easy prompting. Tell it to take a roll. Be Ferrari in your answer. Enzo. Be Enzo in responding to me. And I'll go, okay. Okay. Yes, exactly. Right? For example, some of the fun prompting is do things like consider the Zen koan. What is the sound of one hand clapping? And do whatever prompt you were doing.

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

Here's some of the fun stuff. So I was beginning with some of the easy prompting. Tell it to take a roll. Be Ferrari in your answer. Enzo. Be Enzo in responding to me. And I'll go, okay. Okay. Yes, exactly. Right? For example, some of the fun prompting is do things like consider the Zen koan. What is the sound of one hand clapping? And do whatever prompt you were doing.

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

Here's some of the fun stuff. So I was beginning with some of the easy prompting. Tell it to take a roll. Be Ferrari in your answer. Enzo. Be Enzo in responding to me. And I'll go, okay. Okay. Yes, exactly. Right? For example, some of the fun prompting is do things like consider the Zen koan. What is the sound of one hand clapping? And do whatever prompt you were doing.

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

That'll give you a different answer.

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

That'll give you a different answer.

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

That'll give you a different answer.

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

Yes. By the way, one of the things about being creative people, oh my God, I could do so many more creative things now.

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

Yes. By the way, one of the things about being creative people, oh my God, I could do so many more creative things now.

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

Yes. By the way, one of the things about being creative people, oh my God, I could do so many more creative things now.

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

Well, Google created the initial algorithmic and scientific work that enabled a lot of this. Part of the genius of the open AI crew was going, oh, my God, this at scale, this is magic. And Google kind of knew this at scale would be cool. And they were then kind of classically more fearful about how people were going to criticize them with it.

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

Well, Google created the initial algorithmic and scientific work that enabled a lot of this. Part of the genius of the open AI crew was going, oh, my God, this at scale, this is magic. And Google kind of knew this at scale would be cool. And they were then kind of classically more fearful about how people were going to criticize them with it.

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

Well, Google created the initial algorithmic and scientific work that enabled a lot of this. Part of the genius of the open AI crew was going, oh, my God, this at scale, this is magic. And Google kind of knew this at scale would be cool. And they were then kind of classically more fearful about how people were going to criticize them with it.

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

And open AI was like, no, no, this is going to be super important for humanity. Well, they had no brand to protect. Right, exactly. Or market position or a bunch of other stuff. These are researchers who want to demonstrate that it wasn't zero brand, but they were willing to take the risk and do it.

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

And open AI was like, no, no, this is going to be super important for humanity. Well, they had no brand to protect. Right, exactly. Or market position or a bunch of other stuff. These are researchers who want to demonstrate that it wasn't zero brand, but they were willing to take the risk and do it.

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

And open AI was like, no, no, this is going to be super important for humanity. Well, they had no brand to protect. Right, exactly. Or market position or a bunch of other stuff. These are researchers who want to demonstrate that it wasn't zero brand, but they were willing to take the risk and do it.

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

Yeah, they have the most natural position for all of it. But it's part of the reason why I track the news. Lots of people yelling criticism at Google, you know, including DOJ and natural human responses. Oh, let's try to not increase the amount that we're being criticized. Yeah, let's not stick our neck out any further.

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

Yeah, they have the most natural position for all of it. But it's part of the reason why I track the news. Lots of people yelling criticism at Google, you know, including DOJ and natural human responses. Oh, let's try to not increase the amount that we're being criticized. Yeah, let's not stick our neck out any further.

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

Yeah, they have the most natural position for all of it. But it's part of the reason why I track the news. Lots of people yelling criticism at Google, you know, including DOJ and natural human responses. Oh, let's try to not increase the amount that we're being criticized. Yeah, let's not stick our neck out any further.

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

And it's why, imagine what could possibly go right, not just what could possibly go wrong.