Reid Hoffman opens up, w/On Being's Krista Tippett
Masters of Scale
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4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2024
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Krista Tippett and our friends at On Being welcomed Masters of Scale host Reid Hoffman for an inspiring conversation about all things philosophy, AI, and technology’s impact on the human condition. We loved the episode so we’re sharing it with our listeners too. Reid opens up about his progressive upbringing and the power of friendship throughout his life. Plus, the pair experiment with Reid’s chatbot, Pi, and explore how being an AI optimist or pessimist will evolve the future of humanity.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi listeners it's Reed today we're trying something a little different I want to share a special |
| 0:06.0 | conversation about AI between myself and my friend Krista Tippett who hosts the excellent |
| 0:11.1 | podcast on being. |
| 0:13.4 | Krista and I venture into unexpectedly relevant territories, |
| 0:18.0 | discussing topics such as the nature of friendship in human life. |
| 0:21.6 | What this new technology urges us to explore as human beings |
| 0:25.5 | and the concept of creating a contained, boundary to AI. |
| 0:29.7 | It's unlike any interview I've done before. I'm very excited to share this special episode of On Being |
| 0:35.9 | with you. We hope you enjoy. |
| 0:39.2 | My lens on everything is the human condition. How is the human condition. |
| 0:43.0 | How is the human condition revealed, engaged, and stretched in any given circumstance? |
| 0:49.7 | These are the questions I've been asking since a new generation of artificial intelligence |
| 0:54.8 | entered the world. I've been longing to have a conversation that falls between |
| 0:59.5 | the hype about this shiny new thing and the dystopian predictions of the doom it will bring |
| 1:05.3 | upon us. There's much I don't understand but I do understand this. |
| 1:09.8 | ChatGPT and its digital kin are students of, mirrors on us. |
| 1:17.4 | What we are marveling when we look at them and what we are fearing is ourselves. and we are being called to shape this young if mighty technological |
| 1:27.4 | force to human purpose. |
| 1:30.4 | In this |
| 1:33.7 | on being and those to come, we're going to engage this conversation from many |
| 1:35.2 | perspectives. We begin with Reed Hoffman. |
| 1:38.8 | I was fortunate to be with Reed and some other original and wise technologists and thinkers as |
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