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Assertion Supported
Hoffman: GPT-4 already diagnoses better than majority of human GPs
“And for example, a researcher at Microsoft, again, Peter Lee, has written an excellent book about showing how GPT-IV can already do medical diagnoses better than, you know, the majority of human GPs.”
Reid Hoffman Nov 7, 2023 ▶ 9:03 Reid Hoffman confronts the AI critics | Masters of Scale
Assertion Supported
Hoffman: Microsoft withheld VALL-E public release to prevent misuse
“So we did actually a Microsoft technology called Vali that was the text to speech part, which they've been very careful not to release because they don't want it to be misused.”
Reid Hoffman Nov 7, 2023 ▶ 17:15 Reid Hoffman confronts the AI critics | Masters of Scale
Assertion Contradicted
Hoffman: Developers accept over 50% of Microsoft Copilot code suggestions
“In the Microsoft co-pilot product, developers who are using it for the suggestion of code that they're writing are accepting over 50% of the code suggestions.”
Reid Hoffman Nov 7, 2023 ▶ 15:58 Reid Hoffman confronts the AI critics | Masters of Scale
Assertion Partly supported
AbleGamers collaborated secretly with Xbox for over three years
“So able gamers got to work in secrecy with Xbox for over three and a half years.”
Steven Spahn Oct 27, 2023 ▶ 3:36 Small changes with big impact (with Bumble's Whitney Wolfe Herd) | Masters of Scale
Assertion Partly supported
Huffington: Microsoft study shows 60-90 second breaks prevent cumulative stress
“And there is an amazing new study that Microsoft put out that shows that if we can have little breaks in between things, and when I say little, I mean, 60 to 90 seconds.”
Arianna Huffington Aug 16, 2023 ▶ 18:45 Leading in an age of burnout (with Arianna Huffington & Padmasree Warrior) | Masters of Scale
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