Opinion
Hoffman: Israel Is Not Committing Genocide in Palestine
“I gone and argued against a lot of kind of lefties who are like saying, look, the only, like, for example, they say, you know, Israel is committing genocide against Palestine. You're like, no, it's not. Genocide is something different. You could say there's ci…”
Opinion
Hoffman: Slashing university funding and barring foreign students would be catastrophic
“So, for example, you could do the current way of how you're attacking Harvard and say, I'm gonna withdraw funding, I'm going to disallow international students for coming, I'm gonna, like, do a whole bunch of other things which are gonna cause a lot of damage,…”
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Hoffman: 24/7 AI medical assistants on every smartphone are in line of sight
“Now, as you and I know, we are line of sight from a medical assistant that's 24 seven on every smartphone for every person who has a smartphone.”
Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2030
Hoffman: School testing will be 1-on-1 AI oral exams in 3 to 5 years
“A small number of years called three, five. How is assessment going to be done? It's going to be one-on-one oral interviews with AIs.”
Opinion
Hoffman: Democrats alienated Silicon Valley by attacking tech and crypto
“I think the Democratic Party really did alienate a section of Silicon Valley and the tech people, Whether it was attacks on crypto, whether it was, you know, kind of just attacks on big tech, you know, all these things.”
Insight
Hoffman: Mass domestic adoption is key to beating China in AI
“Well, I think the key thing is getting mass adoption. Like actually, My big worry in the competition with China, look, there's all kind of worries about, like, will we move fast enough? Will we be aggressive enough? Will we, like, where will the right models b…”
Insight
Hoffman: Going public is expensive due to wide-ranging plaintiff lawsuits
“Why is it so expensive for companies to go public? Because we allow, you like essentially wide-ranging plaintiff lawsuits against public companies.”
Opinion
Hoffman: Blue states should learn from red states on housing and AVs
“There's a bunch of things that red states are doing better than blue states, and we should learn from them. We should do that. We should say housing prices and construction. Exactly. You're mentioning regulatory allowing things like, for example, autonomous ve…”
Insight
Hoffman: Competing on scale compute was a mistake for Inflection AI
“I think it's one of the mistakes we made with inflection was, oh, we're gonna go after the scale compute side, and that's something you should be very careful about doing if you're a startup.”
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Hoffman: Manas AI found drug candidates for triple-negative breast cancer
“We've actually got even, we've made so much progress that we found some Interesting drug candidates already, even though we haven't finished our tech stack for possibilities for things like triple negative breast cancer and other things.”
Opinion
Hoffman: AI is a more important learning technology than the book
“We have the best learning technology we have created in human history. It's more important than the book relative to a learning technology.”
Insight
Hoffman: Direct cash incentives should be used to drive youth AI adoption
“Precisely when people are saying, well, how do we get adoption of AI amongst young people, it's like, well, pay them something. In order to do it. Like, for example, have a result. Is it, whether it's give directly or anything else, it's like actually direct c…”
Insight
Hoffman: 'A players' at PayPal are not the same as Apple's
“Well, the A players at PayPal, who would be massively successful there, are not the same players as the A players at Apple, who can be massively, so you actually get these areas of coherence and cultural identity”
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Hoffman: Apple is command-and-control with decisions made via executive memos
“Apple is very command and control. I don't know how much you know about their culture, but almost all the decisions are made by executives, by long memos, written their way, all the way to the top”
Assertion Supported
Hoffman: Aurora is running its first heavy-duty autonomous trucks in Texas
“So Aurora, a company headquartered in California, but of course, you know, in, in modern regulatory environment, Where are we driving our first, you know, heavy duty trucks? Texas, right?”
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Hoffman: I am fundamentally a centrist who dislikes political extremes
“Oh, I certainly do that. I mean, look, I'm fundamentally more of a centrist than anything else. So it's kind of like I dislike the extremes on both sides. And so, and you know me, just about everything I say and do is about innovation in technology and the eco…”
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Hoffman: Only a very limited number of startups will build frontier compute
“And there's a limited number of startups that are going to be able to do the scale compute infrastructure that is required for frontier models, right? Not zero, right? Then we open AI, obviously moving to scale Anthropic, et cetera, but it's going to be a very…”
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Hoffman: Startups will win in AI via applications and distilled models
“Actually, I think everyone's going to win because I think startups can do applications. Startups can do distilled models. Startups can do things off open source models. I think there's going to be a bunch of different things.”
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Hoffman: Every professional will have an AI software engineer copilot
“When you say there's a copilot, we're all going to have a software engineer copilot. Like if you're going to be a, If you're a professor of English, you're going to have a software co-pilot helping you do what you're doing. If you're going to be an accountant,…”
Assertion Supported
Hoffman: OpenAI Has Already Produced Multiple Multi-Billion-Dollar Spin-Offs
“OpenAI, I mean, there's already been multiple, multi-billion dollar spin-offs of OpenAI.”
Insight
Hoffman: Banning Non-Competes Is What Made Silicon Valley and California Successful
“And that's one of the reasons why like Annalise Exynian's regional advantage is so key about the not having, you know, anti-competes is because it allows that spinoff from a large company to go do that. And I think that's one of the things that made California…”
Disclosure
Hoffman: Manas AI will not build massive trillion-parameter models
“So like, no, Manus is not going to go try to build, you know, a seven hundred billion or a trillion parameter model.”
Disclosure
Hoffman: AI digital twin built using custom ChatGPT and ElevenLabs
“So we did a custom chat GPT model for the read brain. We did 11 labs for The Voice, and then we're changing, it was our one initially, but we're changing, we're, as different models happen, we're doing different video.”
Assertion Supported
Hoffman: AI twin delivered his Perugia doctorate speech in four languages
“I gave last year, no yeah, last year, a speech in Perugia for an honorary doctorate. And then I had Read AI give the same speech. In languages, because I really only speak English, in Hindi, in Chinese, in Japanese, in Italian”
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