LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid Hoffman on the Future of AI

The accomplished entrepreneur, executive and investor joined Columbia Business School Dean Costis Maglaras to share lessons from building many of today’s leading consumer businesses and to discuss the future of AI. The event was part of the school’s new Distinguished Speaker Series, co-sponsored by the Digital Future Initiative.

[@ahsanmohammed1]

Great interview! Thank you so much for posting it here. Appreciate it.

[@jbo8540]

"The problem with open sourcing the models is they put the capabilities in the hands of everybody" -Reid Hoffman, 2024

[@taijistar9052]

Great quote! People who invested in the “closed” hate open source AI!

[@susanan5435]

Why don’t you post the entire quote - he is all for open source for US gov, academics and entrepreneurs, and obviously concerned about giving our IP to rogue states like Russia. What, you only watch videos on random 10 sec clips?

[@leadgenjay]

Absolutely insightful talk on the future of AI in consumer businesses. For entrepreneurs looking to leverage AI, consider utilizing predictive analytics to enhance customer experiences - it's a game-changer for personalization and retention strategies, often overlooked but incredibly potent in driving growth.

[@ExecutiveZombie]

He hung with Epstein.

[@AdvantestInc]

Considering the transformative impact of AI discussed, how should businesses adapt to remain competitive yet ethical in their AI adoption strategies?

[@adeyemilasisi5897]

Thank you very much for sharing...

[@deeplearningpartnership]

Great talk.

[@silberlinie]

There are more ums and and ums than words and sentences in this conversation. The tone of the conversation is so relaxed that you quickly fall asleep.

[@davidwilkie9551]

Excellent observation on Tesla Investment belief in the company as a Software company that builds industry replacement quality cars, but is blind to the consequences of the results of AI Software devaluation of the "Horse and Buggy" mentality as happened when ICE upgraded the application of horsepower.

[@ExecutiveZombie]

BOOLEAN! ⚔️

[@paulhiggins5165]

So a guy who is invested in AI thinks it's ok to make free use of other people's work to train an AI- I can't say this is a surprising alignment. I wonder if the AI developers would have such an open minded view if their own expensively trained models were somehow made available to be used for free- somehow I doubt it- I think they might feel that their work should enjoy precisely the protections from casual appropriation that they deny everyone else.

[@donfreeman5679]

Currently you can use of AI model for free online.

[@paulhiggins5165]

@@donfreeman5679 My point was that outfits like open AI clearly regard their models as propriatary data which they have exclusive rights to exploit- in marked contrast to their complete disregard for the propriatary data of other people which they have exploited without either permission or payment. And as was pointed out recently in the case of AI the data is the programme- so there is a very real and direct utilisation of third party IP in the fabric of these products.

[@UnsaltedCashew38]

He seems like someone that read the Wikipedia page about AI then decided to start giving interviews. Much OODA about nothing!

[@DJjussi1]

Zero conversation about the impact of AI on education. The interviewer clearly wanted to avoid it

[@miraculixxs]

Why he thinks no human being knows about oceanography, game theory and expert models is beyond me.

[@christianauswien]

Well, how much do you know about oceanography?

[@James-mk8jp]

He knows next to nothing about what he’s talking about

[@beopen689]

If you look closer at his bio, you wouldn't say that

[@ydmoskow]

Obviously you don't know what your address taking about

[@therealjayz8036]

He’s constantly around the smartest people in AI. That proximity alone means he knows more about it than 99% of us

[@2beJT]

You're a proud idiot. Not fooling any of us, James.

[@miraculixxs]

​@@therealjayz8036knowing is not the same as understandig. His main job is to promote his company

[@NanheeByrnesPhD]

Another billionaire majored in philosophy.

[@KrishnaHarish]

So?

[@UnsaltedCashew38]

As Shah Rukh Khan (wealthiest Indian actor) once said as a joke "Always become rich first, then a philosopher, never the other way around"

[@NanheeByrnesPhD]

@@UnsaltedCashew38 wisdomy

[@NanheeByrnesPhD]

@@KrishnaHarish just an observation, and wondering why

[@user-ky6yb3sf1s]

Problem is the interviewer asking questions about not the core competencies of the person

[@user-pb1dz6nd7t]

Cheap BULLSHIT of some lucky cofounder of an very ordinary startup idea😮

[@DidierLTumba]

You @James-mk8jp should rather be honest and rectify like this : "I know absolutely nothing about what this brillant guy is talking about, so can someone help me understand". You know what? We'll be happy to.