Hoffman: Voice will very soon become the main computing interface
Reid Hoffman · Reid Hoffman: Why The AI Investment Will Pay Off · Jan 29, 2025 · at 49:19
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder and VC, discusses why conversational LLMs will enable voice to supersede traditional graphical user interfaces as the primary mode of computing interaction.
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“A hundred percent. One of the party tricks I do is I bring out my phone and put ChatGPT on audio mode to show people. Because part of when we learn to use phones or PCs, we've learned, you know, with GUIs and everything else, we've made it softer, but there's a very precise semantics. One of the things that, that language models allow us to do is to talk to it. And so now, like, you can prompt, you know, ChatGBT with just like, kind of almost like word salad and still get something very interesting. So you don't have to, and so it allows you to be more, you know, kind of inchoate and speculative and brainstorming with it. And you can actually have a useful conversation and create useful artifacts from that, whether it's on your phone or PC. And so that's part of the reason why I've, you know, made that as a prediction.”
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