Reid Hoffman: belief

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…They’re here, I would say, yes. Let’s say, in this new world, I want to have influence through writing. It used to be, write a blog, write a Substack, write for New York Times. What’s the new thing you can do now — that you couldn’t do before — to have influence? I think the creativity thing is the creativity ability amplifier with AI. For example, in Impromptu, I have things that are poems. I have lightbulb jokes. I have a whole bunch of stuff that normally wouldn’t be within my quick skillset, but I can do that, so it amplifies me. There’s a whole bunch of amplification within the current things, like I can do things that I couldn’t do before. I do think that we will figure out some versions . . . I know you yourself are a great student of art. I’ve been thinking about what kinds of art you can create. For example, with this stuff, you can literally make interesting forms of art, where every X times sequence — seconds or whatever — that you’re in front of something, it’s new and never replicating, so that’s a form of medium. I do think that the question around, for example, even in writing, obviously, a book is made about AI with AI, hence Impromptu. For example, we’ll have the Impromptu chatbot up along with it. If people wanted to talk to the bot, talk to the book and elaborate on it, the bot’s there. By the way, maybe the bot will talk to other bots. When you’re saying, “Hey, this thing I’m working on . . . ” I think there’s a whole stack of amplifications that will lead to some radically new things. Put aside money income. Let’s say someone comes to me. They say, “Tyler, spend a year talking to this AI, and then you grade it, and at the end of it all, there’ll be a Tyler Cowen bot. It’ll be excellent.” Should I do that?…

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