Reid Hoffman: belief

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…Well, you’re bringing a different conceptual matrix to everything, including LLMs. You’ve done LinkedIn for quite a while. Obviously, a key role in its creation. How does that make you see LLMs differently? I have my own hypothesis, but I want to hear yours. One of the things that I did when I was doing this is, we’ve kicked off a product — which is, I believe, live now at LinkedIn — called Bizpedia, which is trying to provide an in-depth Wikipedia for all of the information that professionals might need. Anything like, what are the different career paths? What are the job skills? How would I do this particular job better? How do I learn it if I wanted to transition and get into it? It’s, again, that human amplification. We couldn’t afford to do all that stuff, but we could get the LLMs to generate the baseline of it. Then we can use the human network to amplify it, and that was at least one kind of thing that I thought about with it. It obviously also has real implications in search and matching, like hey, which people should meet each other? Or I’m looking for someone to solve this particular business problem. It could be hiring, could be sales, could be partnering, could be information. Obviously, that all gets amplified. My answer would be this. There were uses of LinkedIn that might appear anodyne to a lot of snobby outside observers but are super useful to people who do them, and I think LLMs will be the same. People in poorer countries — they want it to write a business plan for them. The business plan will sound too McKinsey-like to please a lot of people who think they’re better than that, but in fact, it will be super useful.…

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