- Reid Hoffman says everyone should be able to find a way to make AI useful for them.
- Hoffman told the economist podcast that he used AI to learn and inform potential investments.
- Despite the media threshing, a recent investigation by Pew Research Center said that 81% of American workers are “non-AI users”.
Reid Hoffman has advice to anyone who cannot find the useful AI: Try stronger.
“Frankly, if you have not found something useful, about something that is close to your heart, then you are not trying strong enough, you are not original enough,” Hoffman told the economist podcast in an episode broadcast this week.
While the co -founder of LinkedIn regularly uses AI tools in their personal and professional life, not everyone seems to adopt it. A PEW Research Center survey revealed last month that 81% of American workers are “non-AI users”.
Hoffman, an IA optimist, said he used technology to learn new subjects and make decisions as an investor.
He gave the example of giving Chatgpt -4 a research document on quantum mechanics and asking him to explain it at different levels of complexity – as if he was 12, 18 years old or a undergraduate student in physics. “This is probably my most common case,” he said.
Hoffman said that he also uses OpenAi’s in -depth research tool “a lot” and described it as a “super powerful first cycle research assistant”. Although he said it was intelligent, he added it “lacks a bit of common sense” and can include incorrect information.
Although it means that he ends up crossing information, Hoffman says that it always saves him “dozens of working hours” and that this is “regular personal use”.
Hoffman, a first Facebook investor, said that he also used AI tools as a venture capital. When you are considering potential companies in which investing, it feeds PowerPoint slides of the startup business model in an AI tool and asks it to create a reasonable diligence plan.
“And this generates an effective reasonable diligence plan in, like two minutes,” he said, adding that even if certain things could be obvious, this provides other suggestions that “would not have thought for two or three days”.
Hoffman is optimistic about AI and has published a new book this month, “Superrancy”, which pleads positive for the future of the AI of humanity. He said he also used AI to help the feedback from the book – in particular by asking him to criticize the chapters from different angles, as a professor of Europe of technological history.