Reid Hoffman - AI, and What It Means to Be (More) Human

In this season of On Being and those to come, we are going to train the core human questions on the emerging “generative AI.” Beyond the hype and the doom, what is this new technology calling us to as human beings? What is our agency to shape it to human purpose, and how might it bring us - literally - to our senses? This inaugural conversation with Reid Hoffman (‪@reidhoffman‬) is a wide and deep beginning foundation. He and Krista venture into unexpectedly relevant places, like the nature of friendship in human life, and what it would mean to create “contained, boundaried AI” - and Reid's use of words like “delightful” and “elevating” as qualities we can impart to this technology which, as we're hearing again and again, is going to change everything.
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[@drnagendras27]

Thought provoking.......essence of life.....Take me to the new realities of what I saw in my childhood dreams

[@FrancoisSibanda]

Great Podcast Reid. At first I thought you are using A.I

[@workingTchr]

I wish GPT4 wasn't such a "goody 2 shoes." When I asked it what "politically correct" meant, it said something like, "...to respect diversity among people and to value alternative....". It saw PC as a benign, positive thing and had no inkling of the irony in the phrase. I'm hoping that Musk's XAI won't be so "highly trained."