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Reid Hoffman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

This technological wave is coming. Because by the way, even if you said, I can stop this technologist from making it, there's tens of thousands and millions of those in other countries, other places.

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

This technological wave is coming. Because by the way, even if you said, I can stop this technologist from making it, there's tens of thousands and millions of those in other countries, other places.

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

So help steer it to the healthy human outcomes. Because people then say, well, just slow down. If you slow down, then other people shape it too. I use a driving metaphor. It doesn't mean close your eyes and hit the accelerator. No. That's kind of dumb. Accelerate to the maximum possible safe speed. That's a good idea.

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

So help steer it to the healthy human outcomes. Because people then say, well, just slow down. If you slow down, then other people shape it too. I use a driving metaphor. It doesn't mean close your eyes and hit the accelerator. No. That's kind of dumb. Accelerate to the maximum possible safe speed. That's a good idea.

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

So help steer it to the healthy human outcomes. Because people then say, well, just slow down. If you slow down, then other people shape it too. I use a driving metaphor. It doesn't mean close your eyes and hit the accelerator. No. That's kind of dumb. Accelerate to the maximum possible safe speed. That's a good idea.

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

They thought we were doing a research release. They just thought, hey, we know this is coming. Let's start getting some human feedback. And then boom. Oh, wow. Mic drop.

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

They thought we were doing a research release. They just thought, hey, we know this is coming. Let's start getting some human feedback. And then boom. Oh, wow. Mic drop.

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

They thought we were doing a research release. They just thought, hey, we know this is coming. Let's start getting some human feedback. And then boom. Oh, wow. Mic drop.

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

It made it... accessible just about anybody who could have access to a smartphone or a computer could go interact with it and then see something magical whatever your thing was which could arrange from the mundane like well i got this shit in my refrigerator what can i make there's a recipe that's actually pretty good that's interesting to

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

It made it... accessible just about anybody who could have access to a smartphone or a computer could go interact with it and then see something magical whatever your thing was which could arrange from the mundane like well i got this shit in my refrigerator what can i make there's a recipe that's actually pretty good that's interesting to

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

It made it... accessible just about anybody who could have access to a smartphone or a computer could go interact with it and then see something magical whatever your thing was which could arrange from the mundane like well i got this shit in my refrigerator what can i make there's a recipe that's actually pretty good that's interesting to

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

my kind of esoteric interest like i have a philosophy degree so i said what would wittgenstein make of these modern ai things and it writes a little essay and you're like whoa that's pretty good yeah and you as a philosophy major found that critique value it was a good thing to interact with i should test it with automotive shicks that's the only thing i'm an expert you absolutely should this is what i try to prompt people into this prompt deliberate but

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

my kind of esoteric interest like i have a philosophy degree so i said what would wittgenstein make of these modern ai things and it writes a little essay and you're like whoa that's pretty good yeah and you as a philosophy major found that critique value it was a good thing to interact with i should test it with automotive shicks that's the only thing i'm an expert you absolutely should this is what i try to prompt people into this prompt deliberate but

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

my kind of esoteric interest like i have a philosophy degree so i said what would wittgenstein make of these modern ai things and it writes a little essay and you're like whoa that's pretty good yeah and you as a philosophy major found that critique value it was a good thing to interact with i should test it with automotive shicks that's the only thing i'm an expert you absolutely should this is what i try to prompt people into this prompt deliberate but

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

is to say, do it on something, not just on the new things you don't know how to do, like write a sonnet for my kid's birthday. Do that, too. That's very cool. Yeah, it's fun. Right? Fun to do. You should do the new superpowers. Make some hip-hop lyrics on this thing that I care about. Do the things that are completely out of your skill set, but also do it for things that matter to you.

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

is to say, do it on something, not just on the new things you don't know how to do, like write a sonnet for my kid's birthday. Do that, too. That's very cool. Yeah, it's fun. Right? Fun to do. You should do the new superpowers. Make some hip-hop lyrics on this thing that I care about. Do the things that are completely out of your skill set, but also do it for things that matter to you.

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

is to say, do it on something, not just on the new things you don't know how to do, like write a sonnet for my kid's birthday. Do that, too. That's very cool. Yeah, it's fun. Right? Fun to do. You should do the new superpowers. Make some hip-hop lyrics on this thing that I care about. Do the things that are completely out of your skill set, but also do it for things that matter to you.

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

These new AI tools, like ChatGPD, they're great at taking a role that you ask them to take. So a simple role is, I'm going to make the following argument. Make the counter-argument. Oh, okay. Right? Just argue against me. We would love that, you and I. Yeah.

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

These new AI tools, like ChatGPD, they're great at taking a role that you ask them to take. So a simple role is, I'm going to make the following argument. Make the counter-argument. Oh, okay. Right? Just argue against me. We would love that, you and I. Yeah.

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

These new AI tools, like ChatGPD, they're great at taking a role that you ask them to take. So a simple role is, I'm going to make the following argument. Make the counter-argument. Oh, okay. Right? Just argue against me. We would love that, you and I. Yeah.