Reid Hoffman Talks Trump, Thiel & AI

On with Kara Swisher

New York Magazine

News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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From AI and the recent launch of GPT-4 to behind-the-scenes pressure on Washington to resolve the Silicon Valley Bank crisis, today’s guest is in the thick of it all. Kara tells Nayeema that Reid Hoffman is “one of the good ones.” Kara has known the billionaire Greylock VC Partner since the 90s, when he was fresh off the sale of PayPal and before he co-founded LinkedIn. Today they discuss Hoffman’s donations to Biden and other Democrats, how his political views have impacted his friendships with Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, and why he is so bullish on AI. Questions? Comments? Email us at [email protected] or find us on Twitter @karaswisher and @nayeema Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From New York Magazine in the Vox Media Podcast Network, this is chat GPT-4 with 100% fewer
0:18.0	dad jokes.
0:19.2	Just kidding, this is on with Kara Swisher and I'm Kara Swisher.
0:22.5	And I'm Neymaraza.
0:23.5	Do you have mom jokes?
0:24.5	No.
0:25.5	No.
0:26.5	Your mom don't tell jokes.
0:27.5	They just tell you to get in line.
0:28.5	They lecture you.
0:30.5	Mom's job.
0:31.5	I love that we live in this world of OpenAI's GPT-4 and Dally and Bingbot and Big Bard from
0:36.9	Google.
0:37.9	Who names these things?
0:38.9	Well, you know, that's a longer topic.
0:41.0	But you know, this is new one is coming out and it's better than GPT 3.5 or 3 or whatever.
0:46.7	It just gets better and better and it still has the same problems.
0:49.7	It's also got a multi-dimensionality to it, which we haven't seen before.
0:52.7	So GPT-4 is not just operating in text, but able to interpret images as well.
0:57.4	And presumably, there's a lot more coming down the pike.
0:59.7	It certainly feels transformative.
1:01.0	It is.
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