It was only a little more than a year ago that after gaining beta-access to Dall-E, I enjoyed exploring the visual possibilities of āwords that could create images.ā At the start of 2023, as an early tester of GPT-4, I was firmly in the thrall of text conversations. The countless exploratory chats that came of…
This speech was originally delivered by Reid Hoffman in English on September 8, 2023 at the Bologna Business School at the University of Bologna, the oldest university in the Western world. Iāve used AIāno human editing in this case to show what’s possible with the technologyāto translate this speech into over 100 languages. View those…
AI, like most transformative technologies, grows gradually, then arrives suddenly. Headlines make AI feel abrupt and singular when itās compared to a tidal wave, revolution or tectonic shift. In actuality, foundational work in AI has been going on since the 1950s. For more than a decade, Greylock has invested in AI startups, such asĀ Cresta,Ā Snorkel AI,Ā Adept…
We are all collectively experiencing an aha! momentāthat flash of discovery, insight or understandingāwith the recent developments in AI, such as OpenAIās ChatGPT. Of course, an āahaā moment is a bit longer in the tooth than AI. According to the O.E.D, āahaā as we know it goes back at least to the 1390s, when English author…
The magic on display in the growing family tree of LLMsābefore and beyond OpenAIās ChatGPTāis astonishing. In these early stages, weāll continue to collectively find our footing with AI, but the path is there to reconfigure how we work and live. That term itselfāAIāhas also been on my mind. As Iāve been so focused in recent…
When techno-optimists use ChatGPT, they see Star Trek: a future in which opportunities for personal fulfillment are as large as the universe itself.
Introducing āFireside Chatbotsā with Reid Hoffman and ChatGPT