On May 24, 2024, I received an honorary doctorate from the University of Perugia and gave a speech entitled Humanity’s Hegelian Golden Braid. The speech centers on AI, humanity, and technology—and weaves through Hegel and Hofstadter, cathedrals and griffins, T.S. Elliot and Hyman Minsky, and more. A special thanks to Shaun Young, Alec Ross, Rector…
On May 24, 2024, I received an honorary doctorate from the University of Perugia and gave a speech entitled Humanity’s Hegelian Golden Braid. The speech centers on AI, humanity, and technology—and weaves through Hegel and Hofstadter, cathedrals and griffins, T.S. Elliot and Hyman Minsky, and more. A special thanks to Shaun Young, Alec Ross, Rector…
(youtube.com) I recently created an AI version of myself—REID AI—and recorded a Q&A to see how this digital twin might challenge me in new ways. The video avatar is generated by Hour One, its voice was created by Eleven Labs, and its persona—the way that REID AI formulates responses—is generated from a custom chatbot built…
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 “words that could create images.” 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…
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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. I’ve used AI—no human editing in this case to show what’s possible with the technology—to translate this speech into over 100 languages. View those…
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Possible with Aria Finger Possible is a new podcast that sketches out the brightest version of the future—and what it will take to get there. Most of all, it asks: what if, in the future, everything breaks humanity’s way? Hosted by Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger, each episode features an interview with a visionary from…
AI, like most transformative technologies, grows gradually, then arrives suddenly. Headlines make AI feel abrupt and singular when it’s 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 as Cresta, Snorkel AI, Adept…
We are all collectively experiencing an aha! moment—that flash of discovery, insight or understanding—with the recent developments in AI, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Of course, an “aha” moment is a bit longer in the tooth than AI. According to the O.E.D, “aha” as we know it goes back at least to the 1390s, when English author…
The magic on display in the growing family tree of LLMs—before and beyond OpenAI’s ChatGPT—is astonishing. In these early stages, we’ll continue to collectively find our footing with AI, but the path is there to reconfigure how we work and live. That term itself—AI—has also been on my mind. As I’ve 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 ‘Fireside Chatbots’ with Reid Hoffman and ChatGPT