Reid Hoffman and Elad Gil discuss potential technological breakthroughs in the transition from GPT-4 to future foundation models over the next 12 to 24 months.
Insight
Reid Hoffman: Calls for a Global Six-Month AI Pause Cannot Work
“You don't set up a flare and say, everyone should pause for six months. Oh, look, eight billion people paused. On your theory of the universe, the UN would be a highly functioning organization that we would all use for a whole bunch of things. It doesn't work.”
Opinion
Hoffman: AI Improves Humanity's Overall Risk Portfolio Against Pandemics and Climate
“When you get to pandemic, maybe the only way to solve pandemic is AI. Well, a certain help for climate is AI. It's net, I think, strongly in the positive column. It doesn't to say that it might not add some existential risk characteristics to the overall portf…”
Insight
Hoffman: AI cannot be built by UN committees, academics lack building experience
“And you just can't have AI built by UN committee. It just doesn't exist. And it's one of the things that academics mostly don't understand because they've never, most of them, not all, of course, but most have never built anything, don't really understand how …”
Opinion
Hoffman: Intense AI regulation enshrines the past and harms humanity
“Generally speaking, regulation is enshrining the past against the future, and if you look at every industry that goes really intense in regulation, it's, it slows down intensely on innovation, and if you say, well, that's what we should be doing in AI, it's li…”
Opinion
Reid Hoffman: GPT-4 Is Superintelligent in Key Capabilities and Not Alarming
“GBD-IV is already super intelligent relative to a number of human capabilities, is actually not that alarming. Go play with GBD-IV. It's not alarming. It's actually enhancing and amplifying in various ways.”
Disclosure
Hoffman: I Refused to Sign the 22-Word AI Existential Risk Statement
“This is one of the reasons why I didn't sign the 22 word statement of, you know, AI should be treated as an existential risk along with climate change, pandemic, et cetera.”