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Reid Hoffman

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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.

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.

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.

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

Tons. Everyone's working on that. What you're really trying to do is not get fallibility to zero. You're trying to get fallibility to low. But that's relatively straightforward. Everyone's working on that. The fear is hallucination.

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

Tons. Everyone's working on that. What you're really trying to do is not get fallibility to zero. You're trying to get fallibility to low. But that's relatively straightforward. Everyone's working on that. The fear is hallucination.

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

Tons. Everyone's working on that. What you're really trying to do is not get fallibility to zero. You're trying to get fallibility to low. But that's relatively straightforward. Everyone's working on that. The fear is hallucination.

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

I invented shit, right? Oh. And I invented shit, and sometimes it's wrong. But by the way, hallucination, imagination, same thing. Right. And imagination sometimes are really good things. So I want to keep all the imagination and use all the imagination.

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

I invented shit, right? Oh. And I invented shit, and sometimes it's wrong. But by the way, hallucination, imagination, same thing. Right. And imagination sometimes are really good things. So I want to keep all the imagination and use all the imagination.

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

I invented shit, right? Oh. And I invented shit, and sometimes it's wrong. But by the way, hallucination, imagination, same thing. Right. And imagination sometimes are really good things. So I want to keep all the imagination and use all the imagination.

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

Now, when you're saying something that matters to me is true, what I want to do is I want to put in, for example, what Google does with the search algorithm. I want to make it so that it's like the first page or two, generally speaking, has some shit that's on target.