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Reid Hoffman

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

Even though some of them, like the printing press and other things, had cognitive participations, changed the way that we function, communicate, trust information, share information.

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

Even though some of them, like the printing press and other things, had cognitive participations, changed the way that we function, communicate, trust information, share information.

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

For good. Yeah. Because part of the back to why did you write a book is because actually writing a book is a way of thinking. And it changes our patterns of how we think. Because, oh, the way we think now is perfect. We don't need to think better. And you're like, yes, we do. How do we get to the new ways of thinking? I think it's terrible.

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

For good. Yeah. Because part of the back to why did you write a book is because actually writing a book is a way of thinking. And it changes our patterns of how we think. Because, oh, the way we think now is perfect. We don't need to think better. And you're like, yes, we do. How do we get to the new ways of thinking? I think it's terrible.

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

For good. Yeah. Because part of the back to why did you write a book is because actually writing a book is a way of thinking. And it changes our patterns of how we think. Because, oh, the way we think now is perfect. We don't need to think better. And you're like, yes, we do. How do we get to the new ways of thinking? I think it's terrible.

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

It's part of the process. Part of technology is first we reject them, then we integrate them in terms of how we're being human. Back to the question of new is one is speed. Another one is it's a depth of cognitive that is completely different new from anything we've done before. Already AI writes better than the vast majority of human beings.

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

It's part of the process. Part of technology is first we reject them, then we integrate them in terms of how we're being human. Back to the question of new is one is speed. Another one is it's a depth of cognitive that is completely different new from anything we've done before. Already AI writes better than the vast majority of human beings.

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

It's part of the process. Part of technology is first we reject them, then we integrate them in terms of how we're being human. Back to the question of new is one is speed. Another one is it's a depth of cognitive that is completely different new from anything we've done before. Already AI writes better than the vast majority of human beings.

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.