Hoffman: Pre-release GPT-4 gave useless MBA-style advice on AI investing
Reid Hoffman · No Priors Ep. 45 | With Reid Hoffman · Dec 21, 2023 · at 24:06
Reid Hoffman, partner at Greylock and former OpenAI board member, describes testing GPT-4 months before its public launch.
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“When I first got access to GBD-IV you know, months before it was publicly accessed, because I was on the OpenAI board, I sat down and said how can I, Reid Hoffman, make money through investing in artificial intelligence? Because I just wanted to try it. And it was useless. It was the classic MBA, like, I don't understand anything about investing, and I'm going to write something that sounds really smart”
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