Hoffman: AI hallucinations can still accelerate human productivity
Reid Hoffman · Reid Hoffman's AI start-up aims to cure cancer | Masters of Scale · Apr 3, 2025 · at 26:20
Reid Hoffman discusses an example of author Atul Gawande testing ChatGPT Deep Research, where 9 out of 10 quotes hallucinated but still pointed the research assistant to valuable primary sources.
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“And so even in this kind of hallucination case because of the research, it was actually still an accelerant. It just is an accelerant in a way that kind of proves the point from my earlier book, Impromptu, and also part of what I'm trying to say in Superagency, which is, Human amplification. Like, it's, like, actually, in fact, with the research assistant, helped make her massively productive very, very quickly, and of course you should cross-check it.”
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