SPEAKER_00: I believe that we will have a personal assistant for any professional informational task, which is professional task. I process information, you do something with it, you make an investment decision, write a memo, write a prescription, something like that. Two to five years for every

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SPEAKER_07: I'll just say to everybody, it's just great to have Reid Hoffman back on the program. You know,

SPEAKER_08: Reid as one of the founding members of PayPal, co-founder and CEO of LinkedIn, which has just

SPEAKER_09: become a juggernaut. 875 million members, almost a billion now. And he's a partner at Greylock,

SPEAKER_08: board member at Microsoft, and now the co-founder of Inflection AI. So it's just great to have you back on the program. The last time you were on, God, I'm trying to remember, I came to see you

SPEAKER_13: at LinkedIn when I was just starting this program. Exactly. And we just talked about life and all that kind of stuff. So God, there's so much to talk about. Just when I say LinkedIn, and you look back on what you built there, and I say 875 million members and going to a billion, it's just quite

SPEAKER_09: extraordinary. Is it not the staying power of LinkedIn? What do you attribute it to? Just the

SPEAKER_00: network effect? Well, so by the way, one of the great things about doing this interview today is this May 5th, it's the 20th anniversary of the LinkedIn public launch. We are doing this

SPEAKER_16: discussion on that. So, you know, that's a cool little milestone in, you know, my life in the world life, you know, world history. I think a lot of the, the, you know, LinkedIn is the turtle that made it. And, you know, it's, it's partially because it stayed really true to a mission. It's like, we're, this is the role we plan people's lives. This is the thing we do. We're about, you know, time efficiency and time saving, not time spending. We're about amplifying what you're doing in your job search or your career or your work or information about that. We're not doing anything else. We just keep going at it. Even when in the very earliest days, you know, launching,

SPEAKER_21: you know, you'll remember this because we're both old men of the internet. It's true. The,

SPEAKER_23: you know, May 5th, 2003, when we launched, the hot thing was Friendster. Yes. Literally,

SPEAKER_01: the only way that I could get journalists to talk about us was to talk about us as Friendster, but for business, which is totally nonsensical. It's like, there is no Friendster, but for business. That's like, it's like, it's like saying, you know, like pizza, but for driving your car.

SPEAKER_27: You're like, no, okay. Sure. It is just amazing. Also how they've just kept the feature build going

SPEAKER_29: like the, if you want to advertise or if you want to hire people, uh, it just works amazing. And I,

SPEAKER_13: I have been playing with chat GPT for and plugins, and I don't know about you. Um, but if you were to

SPEAKER_08: look at how exciting this is for two old men of the internet, a hundred years, I think, old between

SPEAKER_29: the two of us here, we remember dial up. We remember PC on everybody's desk, office, windows,

SPEAKER_33: the GUI, cloud, mobile, and broadband. 300 baud. Like most people don't have any idea what we're

SPEAKER_08: talking about. My first modem was a Ventel 300 baud. And then I got the Hayes 1200 and 2400. Man,

SPEAKER_13: those were upgrades. Yes, exactly. But when you, when you, when you look at what has happened in the last call it 90 days, uh, with chat GPT for plugins, auto GPT, how does this compare in your

SPEAKER_36: mind, the tingly feeling you probably got when you got your first PC or use the first windows interface or use the mobile phone, iPhone, or cloud computing or broadband, even how does this compare

SPEAKER_16: to you? You know, I think it's the crescendo moment. Like when I say this is bigger than the internet or bigger than mobile or bigger than cloud, it's because it's building on all of them. It's the tsunami that you're surfing at the top of it. And then it's very similar to, but I think your, your, your lens is correct. Cause like the first time you were, you know, playing with a, you know, a PC was like, oh my God, like, there's all these things this can do. And you just kind of like, like your very first metaverse was playing with the PC. It's like you were, you were kind of virtually transported in this thing. And, and I think AI, the current scale compute, because it's really a kind of application of scale compute, which given it's cognitive functions is a good thing to call it, you know, artificial intelligence. But, uh, it's really like this kind of scale

SPEAKER_01: compute, discovering things that we had never, we'd never gotten anything even close to this before. And the way that it's kind of human amplification is, you know, just kind of super interesting.

SPEAKER_16: Right. And so, um, you know, so that, that, that aha moment, like, I remember when I was playing with GBD four, uh, last year, uh, July and August, that was on the board of open AI. And I started like doing prompts and questions and I was like, oh, this is good. This is amazing. Right. You know,

SPEAKER_21: and it's not to say that you don't worry about the concerns and, you know, human amplification. You also

SPEAKER_16: have, I think that all the risk stuff should really be human amplification of bad, bad actors. Like what happens with bad actors using it. We can get to that as it's relevant, but it's like, oh my gosh,

SPEAKER_01: now there's superpowers. Like I have superpowers where I can create an image where I couldn't create an image before. I have superpowers where I can say, I would like to create an epic poem about Jason. Yeah. And you know, his quest to make, you know, uh, poker, the relevant lens into thinking about investing and like, make that an epic poem and I can do it now. Right. Cause it's like this superpower, which is really amazing. Anyway. So it is the most significant moment of technology

SPEAKER_51: in our lives so far, and maybe in our lives on the whole story, our lifetimes. I mean, I,

SPEAKER_13: I am exactly where you are. I can't stop playing with this stuff. I can't stop talking to people

SPEAKER_36: about it. I had Brian Chesky on, on Wednesday. He's just totally all in and he's rethinking the entire, you know, conception of Airbnb. I had, uh, Aaron from box on. He's just turned the entire company around and pivoted towards that. And then here you and I are talking about it in the same light, which is, this isn't a drill. I gave everybody on the company, uh, my investment company, Chetchy, before I had them all sign up for it. About five of the 20 in the last call it 60 days have started taking large swats of work and offloading it and getting phenomenal results in a technology that's crashing constantly. The plugins don't work. The webpage surfing doesn't work. It's got all those clunky kind of things at it. So let me ask you this just cause it's fun to have the crystal ball for white collar workers this year. And again, it's not a scare tactic. It's just pragmatic. What percentage of work that you and I do as investors and entrepreneurs, communicators, and just people on our teams, if they dedicate themselves to this,

SPEAKER_60: what percentage of their workload could be offloaded to chat GPT for in 2023?

SPEAKER_24: Depends a little bit on the job. And you know, cause like, for example, if you're report writing or you're, you know,

SPEAKER_16: notes minute taking, then the answer is probably in the 50 to 80%. Um, you know, although by the way, you may still be doing it. You just may now be doing it a lot better within that timeframe. You're

SPEAKER_66: like, what used to take you three hours to do now will take you 15 minutes. And you may still say, well, I'm going to make a pick another hour and make it a lot better polish on it. Right?

SPEAKER_16: Exactly. You know, amplified, add some creativity, put some questions in other kinds of things.

SPEAKER_66: Um, you know, in our venture business, I think very little, um, you know, it's not to say that very little later, but very little 2023. Um, and it's partially because like, if you look at GPT for what it is a stunning superpower on, it's like a research assistant that instantly delivers a synthetic kind of a synthesis in summary result about a prompt that, that, you know, kind of in your pocket. Now, obviously it's creative and it can generate a Star Trek episode and do other kinds of things as ways of doing it. And that's all. So it's not just like a report, but it really takes all of this stuff and kind of creates a synthesis of it. Now, one of the weird things about what we do in venture is we are looking for that needle in a haystack. We're looking for the extraordinarily different things. So you say, well, say I was investing in a new area, which I don't really do. And I was going to go, oh, now I'm going to start investing in MRNA, you know, application companies. Then actually, by the way, using it as a research assistant could be used as like, Oh, what are the key issues that I should look at

SPEAKER_71: when I'm looking at this company? You've got the world's smartest assistant associates in next

SPEAKER_66: to you, catching you up, right? Going right now, right away. Now, of course, there's some hallucinations. So you have to pay some attention to it and occasionally, but it's immediate and right there. And so that's really helpful. Yeah. But of course, if I was turning to do like MRNA, you know, kind of, you know, drug discovery investment, then I would have to go, you know, to use your guys podcast and all in. Right. Because like casually is a dumb way to be doing investing. Yeah. And so it would help kind of get into it. But once you had expertise, like,

SPEAKER_01: like one of the questions I asked GBD for last August, when I was playing with this, because I was like, Okay, you know, how much is this job replacement on stuff? All right, well, how would read Hoffman make money by investing in artificial intelligence was my prompt. And it gave what was like, kind of I call it an MBA professors, you know, business school professors, analysis that doesn't really very smart person, but doesn't really understand venture capital. So it's

SPEAKER_66: like, right, well, you would look at the areas that have the largest TAMs. And you look at which

SPEAKER_01: products and services had the greatest substitution or alternative impact because of this AI technology, then you go find teams that were capable of addressing that, and then you would invest in those teams. And that's what you would do. And you're like, Well, that makes total coherent sense.

SPEAKER_79: It's a coherent pitch. And that's not what we do.

SPEAKER_80: It's like, well, we know how to make a movie. It's like, yes, you do need a camera, you need film,

SPEAKER_83: and you do edit it. Yes, thank you. Exactly. Thank you. Whereas what we do is we look for,

SPEAKER_66: like, the really kind of stunningly bold idea from an entrepreneur that says, Look, I recognize this new chance of going to market this new kind of product, maybe it's a replacement.

SPEAKER_01: The fact that it happens to be a large TAM or not now isn't really the relevant question. The

SPEAKER_00: relevant question is what future TAMs look like. Could you reduce the market? Yeah, yes. You know,

SPEAKER_85: so there's all this stuff about the way we look at it. Yes, that is not that. And so you're like,

SPEAKER_01: okay, great. You know, not yet. Not yet. A useful tool. It will be I believe what we will have a

SPEAKER_00: personal assistant for any professional informational task, which is professional task. I process information, you do something with you make an investment decision, write a memo,

SPEAKER_01: write a prescription, something like that. Two to five years for every professional activity. Now, what the adoption will look like? Will it be useful to essential? There's a variety of things. But as an amplifier as amplification intelligence versus artificial intelligence? Yeah, it is off the charts amazing. And that's part of the reason why you know, as you know, I, you know, published a book

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SPEAKER_36: I think the human augmentation, right? This amplification, this becoming a mutant becoming the 10 X developer that's here right now. I mean, it just feels like all of a sudden you can fly and it's like, oh, wow, I thought only Superman could fly. And like, it's like, no, no, all members of

SPEAKER_101: Justice League can now fly. And as but one example of that, have you seen the code interpreter that they

SPEAKER_36: launched over the weekend and played with that yet? No, I haven't. So code interpreter lets you open a CSV file. You use the code interpreter, I just start taking random CSV files I found on like public information websites, one of them was like, number of electric vehicles and hybrids, you know, vin numbers, whatever was on some public thing. And I said, tell me about this. And it was like, or tell me trends about it, give me some charts, and it just starts spewing spewing out charts. And I'm like, okay,

SPEAKER_29: that's a data scientist job. And I gave a speaking of the other day. And there was a data scientist there who did the data science for this 100 person hospitality company. And I showed him this live on

SPEAKER_36: stage at their off site. And he said, that's about half of what I do all day is these requests. And I said, guess what, now you don't have to do the requests you're getting people can do them themselves and then come to you for the more sophisticated one. He said, Oh, my God, thank you, because I'm like a month behind on getting people this basic stuff. So everybody is going to be able to

SPEAKER_108: be a data scientist now not to his level, maybe they're 60%. But boy, does that change everything?

SPEAKER_66: Yes. And and by the way, it helps him be a lot better too. Because as he refines on the okay, what questions you really ask? What data should you really look at? How do you look at this data the right way? All of those kinds of questions. It makes us all better improves our capabilities.

SPEAKER_13: Yeah, it's it is truly fascinating. I guess everybody wants to talk about the downside of it.

SPEAKER_36: So I think we should hit that right now real quick, because what the consensus with smart people I've been talking to is this augmenting everybody making everybody more efficient. And we got a hell of a product roadmap. So what Aaron Levy said today is yeah, this is gonna make everybody 30%. That was his number. Brian Chesky picked the same number. I had picked the same

SPEAKER_29: number I picked 30. Brian said 30 or 40. And Aaron said 20 to 30. So you're like, okay,

SPEAKER_111: and you said something similar, like depending on the job, it could be 50 could be 80. Or maybe you

SPEAKER_36: go back and put another hour into it. Everybody who is in the industry understands this is going to just make us get through the backlog of product roadmap, customer service, whatever the issues in your organization are, you're just going to move 30% faster a year, which means compounding. Everybody's going to be twice as efficient every two or three years. Maybe you could speak to what would be your

SPEAKER_101: most charitable, hey, don't worry about the AI. It's going to just make us all amazingly better at our jobs. And there's so many more promises off. And then maybe you could steal me on the other side,

SPEAKER_113: which is, hey, maybe we got to think this through, because I know that Biden had some people over today at the White House to talk about this. Yeah, I think it was yesterday. But um,

SPEAKER_66: was yesterday? Yeah, yeah, it was yesterday. And so, let's see, you know, I'm fundamentally a believer that we that this will be really great for the vast majority of people. Yes. And even to say,

SPEAKER_117: look, in the case where you say, you know, okay, customer service cost center will actually,

SPEAKER_66: in fact, hit a bunch of jobs. Even in that you say, well, but you can make AI to give skills,

SPEAKER_16: re upscale, retrain other kinds of things, you know, like, you know, well, maybe I can join sales, or maybe I can do other things as kind of ways of doing this. And that is part of, I think, the

SPEAKER_66: reason why I'm ultimately bullish. And I think the positive of it, it is an amplifier to human capability, just like you'd say, you know, every smartphone has a medical assistant, has a tutor for everything, you know, has a, you know, kind of a personalist, you know, AI assistant for, you know, what are your whatever problem you're trying to navigate and kind of help you with it. And I think that's, you know, that's enormously, you know, kind of, you know, kind of amplifying, like, you could even like, say, Well, I was driving somewhere, and, and my car kind of broke down, and I can ask the personal AI about it going, Okay, these are what I see the symptoms of, you know, what should I do? Right? Like, what's going on? Hugely, hugely beneficial across all of these, these angles. And that's, that's the positive. And in a little bit, the reason I was in is like, look, you know, like, you said, well, 50% of my work, my job goes away. It's like, well, not necessarily, as much as the really bad parts, and then you can amplify to getting a higher standard on what you're doing. And, you know, and that's really good. Well, it's really interesting about

SPEAKER_36: what you said there, I just want to amplify two things. One, you're getting rid of your chores, the things that are the most arduous, which then there's, you're going to find as a human more creative things to do if you're doing customer support, well, maybe you're doing customer training, maybe you're doing customer success. Now you moved up from just telling people how to log in, or reset their password. The second thing you said, those are actually the first person I've heard say this, well, if this is this good to replace your job, or a large portion of it, it's good enough to

SPEAKER_29: retrain you for another job. Exactly. That's actually a very important insight. I think that people you're the first person I've heard actually say that. Yeah. Yeah, no, exactly. Because it's like,

SPEAKER_66: we can make it part of the solution. So then when you get to the downsides, you look, the, I think the two most obvious downsides are, it's transition. And the majority of human beings don't like transition, they like feeling comfortable where they are. Yeah, you know, that's going to be anxiety producing, you know, concerning, because it might be the, you know, in transitions,

SPEAKER_16: it's like, well, you know, we laid off those five people. And so it's like, well, you're one of those five people. It's like, oh, that's hard, that's difficult. Yeah. And so, you know, like, we as a society, you know, government, society, companies, you know, tech companies need to help with these transitions a lot. That's part of the reason why I've been thinking about that and tutors and rescheduling, you know, and like, matching and giving you career advice and all the rest of the stuff.

SPEAKER_66: The second thing is, you know, these tools are superpowers. And part of the superpowers is you put,

SPEAKER_16: you know, superpowers in the hands of bad human beings. So like cyber criminals, you know, we got to deal with that. I actually think this, this whole like, you know, I've been a great proponent of open source, you know, was on the Mozilla board for 11 years and so forth. And I think actually, open models so far don't make sense. Because we don't know how to distribute them as open source where they're safe. And, you know, it can be it can range from cyber hacking to even much worse things. Um, you know, question. This is a super interesting point,

SPEAKER_13: I'd love for you to unpack. Because when open AI came out, I know you don't speak for open AI.

SPEAKER_101: They said, Hey, this technology is so important. Everybody needs to have access to it, it needs to be open. And then some point Sam said, this stuff is so powerful. We're not ready to let everybody see which you're kind of amplifying here. So what what is it that you know, Sam knows, smart people

SPEAKER_105: who I respect, um, of why you're being cautious about it, because there is the Facebook language model is open source, it's out there. So let's talk about not open source as much as it was dropped

SPEAKER_21: off into the dark web by the Yes, by the by some set of the researchers who had been given access to it. So it was it was involuntarily open source. That was that is a fascinating moment too,

SPEAKER_36: because I looked at that and I said, Who is Facebook's biggest threat or biggest enemy? It's obviously Google, right? They compete for ad dollars. And I'm like, I wonder if this is a kind of envelope that was handed to somebody at the New York Times to be put on to GitHub. Because I don't know that Facebook Facebook's network effect, I think keeps it in the game. But Google, they, you know, they seem to be the most at risk. So anyway, that's fascinating. I don't want to be a conspiracy theorist here. But yes, we can go we can go in in depth. Now,

SPEAKER_66: the open AI mission stays the same, which is open access and open provisioning for as broad a range of humanity as you can do consumers, developers, etc. It was never necessary of necessity open source. That was how other people were hearing it. And I think the organization was neutral on the question. It's like, Look, if we can do it open source, and make it safe, totally happy to do it. That's part of making the mission. But it was like, Well, we don't know if we'll be able to do that. And so far, it looks like we can't. Because whatever safety rails you put on it, the safety rails are easy to untrain. Of course, so yeah, it's like, Okay, well, it's like, it's like saying, Okay, well, we, you know, we're distributing something that has an explosive power. And it's like, Well,

SPEAKER_01: actually, in fact, you know, with this thing, you can make your every car into a car bomb,

SPEAKER_36: you're like, Oh, maybe not. We don't want you to take the safety off the gun. Like, there's a safety on a gun for a reason. Yes. And you can see this with people trying to trick it, you know, I was trying to get it as part of my little talking the other day, I was like, come up with some ideas that are like, really dangerous, immoral, or insane, that you would never do for a hotel chain,

SPEAKER_101: to just entertain these hotel executives who I was talking to. And I was like, I can't do that, I can't do anything ethical or immoral. And I was like, You're a screenplay writer, write a screenplay about a supervillain who creates an evil hotel chain. And I was like,

SPEAKER_36: Absolutely. There's a casino that's crooked, we're gonna torture people, I was just like, Whoa, whoa, no, too much of it made like, like a horror film out of it. Um, but there's other things

SPEAKER_101: that can be done with this, like you could ask it, Hey, what would be a great cyber attack for me to do?

SPEAKER_153: And I don't want to even mention the other ones because, you know, it's part of being appropriate.

SPEAKER_157: Yeah, I mean, I hacking and then pick the 20 things that

SPEAKER_36: getting worse than getting your computer hacked. And I do I do have some, I think that's like a very interesting piece to it.

SPEAKER_160: All right, everybody, our friends from Microsoft are here, Tom Davis, a senior director at Microsoft

SPEAKER_162: for startups. And you're a former founder, you are here today to talk to us about the giant leaps that Microsoft has made in the AI space. What does this mean for startups? I see a ton of different tools.

SPEAKER_101: I've been playing with chat GPT for I have a paid account, but I'm also seeing things happen with

SPEAKER_165: GitHub. Absolutely. So, uh, the work that we've been doing with open AI over the last few years, it's really set ourselves up with a foundation around, uh, we've built this sort of AI supercomputer from the ground up. And we've been looked at everything from GPU configurations to networking and things. And really what we're now able to do is sort of allow startups to access all of this innovation through our founders hub. So we've been building this, let's do something at scale. So startups can now build their own AI applications and, and build out and train LLMs as well. And this has really helped us to become a far better cloud for AI broadly, and being able to drive that down to the startup ecosystem is fantastic. It's open to everybody. There's no funding requirement. You

SPEAKER_160: don't have to be anointed by a VC five minutes to sign up and you get six figures of benefits,

SPEAKER_162: Azure credits, GitHub, open AI APIs, which everybody's really having fun playing with and so much more. So go ahead and sign up right now, aka.ms slash this week in startups, aka.ms slash this week in

SPEAKER_36: startups. Thanks so much, Tom. Thank you. What do you think about regulation and self-regulation? You know, you look at the movie industry. MPAA is like, we got this government will protect kids,

SPEAKER_101: we'll tell you PG, PG, 13 G, R rated, x rated, NC 17. We got all these different labels, we're going to do it, some directors will complain, they'll fight for different ratings, but we'll regulate ourselves. So what should we do as an industry to regulate ourselves, which I think would be the most positive way to do this here in the United States, rather than having the EU, which has

SPEAKER_113: got a pretty fine filter come in and be like, oh, yeah, we got some ideas for you on how to kill this

SPEAKER_16: technology? Well, you know, one of the things I do when I'm in Europe to try to get them to wake up,

SPEAKER_173: as I say, look, keep passing GDPR and other kinds of things, because then we'll build all the technology, then we'll, because you, your local companies won't be able to do it because of this regulation, and then we will retrofit it to the regulation. And then we will be the providers of it. So if you want us to

SPEAKER_66: continue to have all the tech industry and stuff, just keep on your current path, it's great for us. And, and I don't say that because I want them to do that. I actually want them to think, actually,

SPEAKER_16: in fact, it would be great to have a healthy, vibrant European tech industry, where, you know, some set of different kinds of cultural norms and values, you know, very good ones built based within Western democracies, would also be present and present in the marketplace of products and ideas and other kinds of things, that would be good to do. But it doesn't do it doesn't by saying,

SPEAKER_66: you know, you're not allowed to take risk, you have to ask for permission first, you have all these impediments for trying risks and so forth, you know, obviously, some impediments for trying risk is good. But like, you know, like the, hey, if we don't really know, if it would be okay, or a little bad, then fine, give it a shot, as opposed to, look, when we know it's going to be bad, or it has a risk of being very bad. No, okay, then we should be more controlling. And so I think,

SPEAKER_16: look, I think the MPA is the thing I've been kind of advocating for, for, you know, a decade on the tech stuff is to say, hey, and you know, part of the challenge is, how do we get together in a way that's not, you know, anti competitive, you know, we need some, you know, kind of clearance from the government is like, look, this kind of coordination on these issues is not anti competition, but actually, in fact, pro health and society on these things. I think that part of the question is to say, you know, our future is actually much safer and much better. Like, you know, when you look at,

SPEAKER_66: you know, kind of open AI training GBD two, three, 3.4, you know, etc, actually, in fact, it gets alignment better, it has better safety training on that stuff. As we're getting to the future, the future is better. So actually, in fact, keeping pace, and going towards the future, actually, in fact, we have more tools, and more ability to do, like, advanced safety things there.

SPEAKER_01: Like, I think it's part of it. I also think that, you know, like, the classic thing is people say, well, I'm really worried about the jobs. And you're like, well, but the only way you can prepare for that is by getting into it, you can't prepare for what the steam engine or the automobile does for

SPEAKER_21: industry other than getting into it. Yeah. And so you want to ask the questions, you want to transition, you want to help with the transitions, and all the rest of those parts of doing it. But like, this is an illusion of saying, well, then we'll just sit down, and we'll kind of,

SPEAKER_180: and we'll study it, and we'll know what it is. You're like, that doesn't work.

SPEAKER_101: No, you can read science fiction, just go watch Blade Runner, you get an idea of where this is going.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah. You know, and like, you got to use it. Yeah. And by the way, we can steer away from the things that you think are bad in Blade Runner as we're going, and as we're learning what the things

SPEAKER_21: are. And so you have to have a predisposition to act, experiment, and then kind of modifying. So, you know, there is obviously a certain amount of self regulation that comes in these companies that that have employees that care about things that have long term interests of customers and share prices and market positions and brand that they actually care about. And there's a lot of,

SPEAKER_66: you know, kind of, you know, things where they they're careful about risks, because they don't want to have, you know, those things come back and and make big things that doesn't cover everything that's, you know, that's not. And so I therefore I think that some coordination is good, I think. And I think the biggest question that we actually really need, if you look at right now, what the risks are with AI, it's like, okay, there's already just a ton of these open source models are out

SPEAKER_184: there that are pretty powerful. Yeah, and that's, that's, that's already there. And so the question is,

SPEAKER_66: is how do we play forward from that? And what is what is safety and transition look like? And what people are, I think, are most worried about is jobs. But then they they get wrapped up in like,

SPEAKER_16: you know, people beating the existential drum risk or, you know, which, you know, it's like, okay,

SPEAKER_21: there's a lot of bad reasoning about that. And it doesn't mean you say, can you say there's 0% chance of existential risk? I'm like, well, no, I can't say there's 0%. I can't say there's 0% on asteroids either, or on nuclear weapons, or on natural biology, or manmade biology,

SPEAKER_66: there's a whole stack of things I can't say there's 0% on. Yeah. But I actually can tell you, there's a whole bunch of controls that make it extremely unlikely. Yeah. And so navigating those

SPEAKER_83: controls is a is a good thing. And that's how you do that by proceeding.

David Friedberg: And I think the nuclear example is, you know, it's different. Obviously, none of these analogies

SPEAKER_36: are going to be perfect, because you have materials that we then once we realized, hey,

SPEAKER_101: Manhattan Project, we got the bomb first, a lot better than certain other people getting the bomb first, I can tell you that, because they would have used it slightly differently. Um, it was an imperative for us to get that bomb first. Now, it's horrific that we dropped two of them on Japan, obviously. And this is one of the worst scenarios you could ever imagine. But since that time, the regulation, and by the way, people debate that whether the war would have ended, and which

SPEAKER_192: would have been a more compassionate thing, that's, I think, above both of our pay grades,

SPEAKER_101: but they did get control of the material, they did get the world to say, you know, we need to get around

SPEAKER_36: a table here and discuss this. How many of these should we have? Which countries should be allowed to have these? And once we got to eight, nine, 10 countries, it was like, you know what, no mass, nobody else needs to have these, we're going to take a pause here. And that feels like, I think we're where we're getting to very quickly with this, which is some of the models require a lot of hardware. And hardware is to me, in some ways, perhaps you tell me if I'm right or wrong, here could be, maybe you need to have a license, you have to know your customer when you're taking money over borders, maybe you want to have one of these Nvidia 100s, like, yeah, maybe you need to be registered have insurance. If you want to buy certain guns, you got to get licensed. So what's what's practical here, I think we have the framework of like, yeah, we got to move forward. But have you have you heard any practical suggestions of who should take some of the responsibility? Should it be Azure, or AWS or Google when they put this out there, and they say, Hey, listen, if you want access to this, here's a code of ethics, here's a code of behavior,

SPEAKER_101: here's the terms of service, and you need to have insurance, you need to have a driver's license, just to even have access to this? Or is it just going to be a free for all?

SPEAKER_16: I think the hardware and compute centers is a very good thing. We obviously have to figure out how to do this in an international basis, not just have us unilateral. I think that the question around, you know, when large scale compute is being deployed on this stuff, is one of the areas where some, you know, kind of collaboration is potentially very useful on this. Once again, it's kind of like, okay, well, I could see how to do it right now, because the largest scale compute is Microsoft

SPEAKER_21: and Google, you know, together with, you know, their various, you know, allies and adjacent,

SPEAKER_16: you know, like open AI and whatnot. But you know, I think part of the thing is that will obviously that's end years before other chips are created, not just the Nvidia chips, CPUs, you know, large scale compute centers are stood up in various places and so forth. And so kind of getting into all that, I think is a is a kind of a really useful thing. Unfortunately, I think the parallel is a little bit more biology than it is nuclear, because it's kind of hard to, like right now, it's pretty easy. 10 years from now, it's pretty hard. It's like, well,

SPEAKER_66: you know, like, to have that kind of scale compute, how do you actually, in fact, really know what's going

SPEAKER_21: on? If you have a, you know, kind of a bad state actor, that's kind of set up a big data center in

SPEAKER_200: some way, Moore's law makes it so this stuff runs on old iPhones in a cluster, you know, like,

SPEAKER_66: yeah, so we have to figure that out as we go. Yeah, I don't think we are without tools on it.

SPEAKER_21: And it's kind of like the equivalent of, you know, you know, well, did we ever thought we could get a rocket that could actually get us, you know, launch something to the moon, you know, no, but we figure it

SPEAKER_66: out as we go. And so, you know, I think that's the thing. And I think one of the good things about

SPEAKER_21: all the discourse is, like, all of the people that I'm associated with, who are building the stuff, are intensely focused on not just the great opportunities, but also navigating risks. And I

SPEAKER_01: myself have participated in a number of off sites, sometimes where we have to have lawyers present to make sure that, you know, it's like, there's no antitrust thing going on here. Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_66: It's just, hey, how do we make this stuff safe? Can we share safety concerns and safety test harnesses? And, you know, which things should we be looking for in order to make that work? And how does that, you know, which places, you know, you know, and will compete in products and markets and prices and all the rest of them, we're not gonna talk about any of that stuff here. We'll talk about the stuff that we can do to make sure we mitigate downsides. And I think that's, you know, super

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SPEAKER_36: incorporating this. I've had no less than a half dozen instances where companies that were pursuing an AI strategy using chat chippy teeth came to me and said, at the pace open AI is going, I think we don't need to exist. We need to pivot. And I said, Well, you know, they're not going to create like the most

SPEAKER_29: vertical applications in the world. They're the roadway, which is how Brian Chesky said it to me is like, you know, there's going to be like multiple highways here, you can take your car on multiple highways and the experience of the consumers in the car, the bus, whatever. And the highway is the

SPEAKER_36: infrastructure. I'm curious and how you're seeing this come together. You started inflection AI and I guess you co founded that and your venture firm is in and you were at open AI, you came off the

SPEAKER_101: board, I understand because this is going to be conflict city makes total sense. If I'm correct

SPEAKER_36: there. How is is chat GPT just going to run the table this for profit slash nonprofit such hybrid kind of situation? Are they going to run the table on every startup and be the ultimate vertical of everything? Or is there going to be room and they're not ambitious enough to say, you know what, we're just going to build the everything app, we're going to build, you know, Elon's x.com and do everything? How do you think about that as an investor? And then we'll talk a little bit about what you're doing with inflection. And does inflection worry about that?

SPEAKER_66: So I think, look, open AI is definitely an 800 pound gorilla. Awesome. They have a great mission,

SPEAKER_16: a great team, a bunch of other things. They're going to be providing API's across a number of things. So you know that those API's then create kind of an open access to a whole bunch of developers and a whole bunch of consumers and a variety of tech, but then other companies that might want to

SPEAKER_66: be a monopolist in that area can't do it. So I think that's all super awesome. But they're one

SPEAKER_21: company of 450 people, they have a nonprofit primary research agenda on beneficial artificial intelligence and AGI specifically to do this. And they're not in, they're not trying to create a whole bunch of business stuff. Matter of fact, part of the arrangement that they have with Microsoft is you get to like, well, we're provisioning enterprises and so forth, you know, Microsoft's doing a lot more of that. And Microsoft's not exclusive in the open AI stuff. It's just they're, you know, kind of building it out, putting it on Azure, you know, these kinds of things. So I think that there will be

SPEAKER_01: a major set of things. And if you're if your theory of the game is, I'm going to directly

SPEAKER_66: compete with open AI, you better have a good theory of the case, just a little bit like if you say, well, I'm going to launch a desktop search engine, you better have a good theory of the case, it's not impossible to do. It's just, you know, it's a challenging Everest mountain, better come equipped, have a good competitive theory, good risk theory, a good reason why you're doing something that they won't be doing. But by the way, among them, you already shadowed, which is, there's a ton of stuff that businesses need, human beings needs over that, that open AI is not going to do directly. And even the open AI BPA is, even if they go, they're helpful for it, will take a whole bunch of work in order to get there. So for example, you know, I have two portfolio companies that are doing great work here, a coda, which is kind of like, how do you kind of power meetings? Yeah. And you know, they've got a whole bunch of super cool, open AI, AI integrations, Tome, which is doing slideshows, you know, kind of does both images and text on this stuff has a whole bunch of, you know, interesting integrations here. And look, if you're saying, I'm just building a thin front end, like, I'm going to do a blog posting thing. And it's going to be a thin front end, it was like, well, then you better have a theory of the game, because they're going to keep advancing the thing. And, and you'd better think, okay, I'm going to keep advancing with them or whatever your theory is. So you have to build something substantive. So I think there's tons of applications. I also think, you know, for example, what we're doing with inflection, which if you look at kind of chat GBT, it's, it's oriented at, like, kind of more of equivalent of a kind of a search engine, like, here's, here's a list answer to every question. It's an instant Wikipedia like answer. Great. Well, but there's a lot of stuff in human experience and navigation that goes, like, use this example, you say, well, you go, a friend's pet, you know,

SPEAKER_01: a beloved pet just died, how should I comfort them? Right? Well, you go, and here's seven things that you might consider, you know, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Show empathy. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And then on the other hand, you could have, you know, what pie does with inflection is something to say, oh, wow, you know, look, you know, your friend better than I do, you know, what do you think your friend might appreciate about your being present or kind of emotionally connected? What, what kind of gestures? Well, I'm not really sure. Like, well, have you thought about just like having coffee with them and seeing how they're doing? You know, like, oh, that might

SPEAKER_66: be good. Or, or, you know, is something that, you know, is kind of bringing over something that is a

SPEAKER_01: treasured memory, like you, a lot of picture about, you know, the, the two of you with the pet and say, you know, I feel the echo of your pain here, but, but the love was so intense, you know, and, you know, something like, like, and do that through a dialogic process, that's kind of more emotion oriented and

SPEAKER_66: path oriented and discussion oriented with you, which is part of the pie theory of the world,

SPEAKER_01: like having a personal artificial intelligence, navigate everything you're doing in your life to help you be out in the world, be talking to people being interactive.

SPEAKER_29: And is that the mission for this new startup? Yes. Yep.

SPEAKER_222: Yeah. So it's to, if I reflect it back to you, you know, use Google Bard, use Poe from Quora,

SPEAKER_101: use ChatGPT4, you ask it something gives you back a pretty great response, but it's pretty,

SPEAKER_36: uh, you know, it's, it's not having a dialogue with you asking follow up questions, you get your response and that's it. Yes. There's no follow up question. So it's not being inquisitive or it's not being interested in you and why you ask that question. So you're kind of closing the loop on

SPEAKER_173: that. That's pretty brilliant. Yes. What a good idea. Yep. No, well, you know, I credit, um, Mustafa and the team. I'm, I am a co-founder. I helped, but you know, the team is amazing. I mean, Mustafa has, you know, since co-founding DeepMind has been doing this stuff for years. So he picked,

SPEAKER_66: you know, the key people who were both amazing technologies, but get this kind of how to be, how do you tune, not just to IQ, but to EQ and how do you tune, not just to give answers, but to have a conversation and questions. And, you know, that's what they've been working really

SPEAKER_29: intensely on. I had Keith from Toma on the show last week. I basically just told my producers,

SPEAKER_36: uh, anybody who demos something interesting related to AI, just get them on the show. Same day. I'll talk to him for 15 minutes. I'll talk to him for 50 minutes, whatever it is. And they saw Tom doing this like presentations. And we did one where we're like, you're, you're making a venture

SPEAKER_101: capital pitch deck and it's for somebody doing web apps and AI firms or a pharma or crypto. And it was like,

SPEAKER_36: whoa, if you had never written a pitch deck for venture, you just got a quick education and it's laid out. And then now you're on slide seven. You're like, you know what, that theme doesn't work for me. That's a little too cyberpunk. Let's go with something that's a little more banky and

SPEAKER_101: more trustworthy. And I was like, well, this is going to get really interesting, really fast. What do you think about interfaces like voice? We had Siri and Alexa, they were supposed to solve all these problems for us. And I asked that a conference recently, like, what did you do? What was the last thing you did with it? It was like, I called somebody. I asked Siri to call somebody. I asked Siri to change the song. I asked Siri to set an alarm or a timer. And it's like, after that, or tell a joke, it's basically people are done with Siri and Alexa. This piece and we talked, you get this really good concept of this is the crescendo. How does the fact that we have

SPEAKER_36: absolutely nailed, uh, speech recognition and we've nailed computer visualization? You're building this pie thing. We all saw the movie her, you know, people are working on robotics. You and I, you know, no Boston dynamics, whatever. There's a lot of interesting research on artificial faces and hands giving you, you know, feedback. Where does this all go in terms of closing the loop on,

SPEAKER_101: you know, like an actual, dare I say, like replicant?

SPEAKER_72: Um, well, right now, I mean, one of the things we pay a lot of attention to is where would it move

SPEAKER_66: from being a tool to being a creature, being an entity. And there's a great kind of Star Trek episode in this, in the next generation called the measure of a man, which is about data and so forth. It's the one I most recommend people watch. And, um, and look, we have to pay attention to that,

SPEAKER_177: because it's totally possible. It's not the kind of Bozoville of all I asked it was conscious and

SPEAKER_66: it said, yes. Yeah. Right. Congratulations. You passed the Turing test. Yes. Um, but I think that, you know, we have to pay attention to those things and navigate appropriately for them, but I think we're a fair ways away. I mean, most of the discussion about where it becomes an entity

SPEAKER_01: is a lot of discussion about emergent properties and look, it's again, not zero percent possible,

SPEAKER_16: you know, like it's again, not zero percent, but you know, it's kind of what I see actually happening with these, uh, AIs. And this is part of the reason why, you know, I wrote this book impromptu is, is it's amazingly better and better savants, which is part of the thing that creates the,

SPEAKER_173: you know, the amplification intelligence or the implication of human abilities, you know,

SPEAKER_66: our aha moment. And, you know, so for every current visible future, I mean, I don't mean forever, but from where we're currently building, it's all tools. And it's one of the reasons why I say, well, would you, would you put the AI in charge of a mission critical system? Well, no, not yet. I

SPEAKER_249: might have it as a personal assistant to a human who's in charge of a critical system. Yes. Right.

SPEAKER_251: Sure. And check the work. Yes. Right. But like, when I say, nope, it's, it's in charge of its own

SPEAKER_21: critical system. No, not unless I really had no other option. Now, for example, if you get to questions about how do we improve humanity a whole bunch, say you can put a medical assistant on every

SPEAKER_01: smartphone, of course, it'd be better with a medical system with a nurse, a medical system with a doctor and so forth. But there are billions of people on this planet, right, do not have access to those.

SPEAKER_66: Would you rather have them have something where they might say, sounds like you have an infection,

SPEAKER_01: you should go get some penicillin? Yeah. Right. Can you go get penicillin? Right. And maybe they can, but, but maybe they can. And maybe you've just made a huge difference for a mother with her child. And it's like, look, and of course, they should say, if you can ever talk to a doctor, do that first. Yes, do that first. And by the way, like, for example, people say, well, our teacher is going to be put out. No, we're gonna have amplification intelligence for teachers

SPEAKER_253: to imagine how great a teacher can be now that they have a grading assistant, right? Yeah. Like,

SPEAKER_36: hey, what can I do tomorrow to engage this particular student? It's like, oh, well, that student likes, you know, Marvel superheroes, maybe we should make a physics agenda for them and a test and a project for them based upon the physics of, you know, Iron Man suit. And it's like, okay,

SPEAKER_101: great. Can you make that for me? And now this kid's totally engaged because it's in the genre they

SPEAKER_86: love. Exactly. Right. And so, so getting to all of those things is, is right now, line of sight,

SPEAKER_36: line of sight. We can see it. That's the thing. The pace is bonkers here. I, can you, do you remember a time when this pace occurred in our careers? No, we have the crescendo of

SPEAKER_259: acceleration. Yeah. It's because it builds on without the internet. You couldn't have it without no, you know, mobile and cloud computing. You couldn't have it because it's off the scale compute

SPEAKER_36: stuff without Wikipedia with the semantic data, like a lot of this training data. Yes. So that opens up another Pandora's box. I'm a content creator for life. And I care very deeply about content creators having their work compensated and, um, taken care of. We saw stable diffusions getting sued.

SPEAKER_101: Uh, githubs got a lawsuit of what some open source folks for, uh, co-pilot. Uh, Barry Diller was like, listen, this is the moment to stand up. And the writers guild is fighting to have no chat GPT in the

SPEAKER_36: writers room as of the strike yesterday I saw. So it's coming to a head here. What's a reasonable, uh, framework given your 30 years in the internet business being there from 300 baud till today for a framework for compensating, getting permission or otherwise, um, making it fair. Forget about the laws around fair use, but let's talk about the term fair as we all know it. What would be fair for the people who answer questions on Quora if they're going to be part of a language model? What would be fair to photographers or Quentin Tarantino scripts or every episode of South Park or every episode of Johnny Carson being used to write more jokes today? What would be fair in your mind?

SPEAKER_117: Well, I think the usual thing is to say, you know, what would be the kind of licensing regime?

SPEAKER_16: And, you know, obviously we could do like creative commons, have some tags about what it could be used for or not used for. You know, I think people, although kind of mistake that what really going

SPEAKER_66: on here is it trains on massive amounts of data. They tend to go, no, no, it's my specific data. And you're like, no, no, no, no. It trains on massive amounts of data. And that's actually what now fine tuning and specific cases, medical, other kinds of things, very useful. Um, and you know, say, well, okay, uh, I may even have my data available in a search result, but it's not available for a training thing without a economic arrangement. And then you might have economic arrangements that are kind of off the shelf. Like, it's just like, Hey, you pay us X and you can do it. Um, you know, as kind of ways of doing it or, you know, some, something that's, that's kind of more automatable,

SPEAKER_73: um, in that programmable, like robots.txt. You can search my website, you don't Craigslist,

SPEAKER_101: Craig Newmark was always very clear. My data, you can index it. Zuck was very clear. Our data, you can index it. Sorry, Google. Yep. Um, and if they don't want to be in the training data,

SPEAKER_20: that's their right. Yes, exactly. And so, um, and I think you'll see training data commons where other large players will say, Hey, we'll, we'll, we'll have this swath of data. We'll,

SPEAKER_66: we'll allow it because we're all building, you know, better products for this stuff.

SPEAKER_16: And I think that there may even be some stuff that really matters from a human standpoint. Like, like you really do want to train a bunch of these things on a bunch of medical data. Um, we'll have to obviously figure out how to make sure, you know, really make sure PII and other kinds of things, you know, don't come back to bite you. But can you imagine like you're training the stuff on like cancer stuff and like we're advancing what we could be doing on cancer. Like that could

SPEAKER_36: be awesome. We, we could solve problems we are not aware of. Uh, there could be precursors to people getting cancer that if we just took every cancer patient and index their history, obviously personal information we stripped out, but you could just ask it just like I did with that CSV of, you know, some EV data and some VIN numbers, you could just pay chat GPT four or whatever model. What are the trends in this? And it might be like, it's very interesting. People who live on in these places have more breast cancer. And it's like, yeah, that's because there were PCBs dropped into a river or something, or people from this demographic, we might find things that we're uncomfortable with.

SPEAKER_113: Uh, and, and I think that's pretty scary to people too. Yeah, but you know, it's partially,

SPEAKER_66: you know, how we make progress and, you know, like, for example, part of progress didn't result in a bunch of externalities that has climate change. Now, most people don't look straight at it and say it's 8 billion people with hundreds of millions, maybe even a billion in the middle class. There's what does that. And by the way, in doing that, you're like, well, like, it's, you know, who's to say 8 billion people isn't like, you're going to shuffle yourself off the mortal coil. It's like, you know, like, okay, but now we just need to apply the same techniques to solving it, right? It's, it's, it's like, yeah, it's a real problem. Let's solve it now. Um, and so, and, you know, like, for example, those of us who are private individuals, like I've been investing in fusion power for the last eight years, because like, well, if you get cheap carbon, cheap and cheap energy, you can do everything from

SPEAKER_259: decarbonization to desal, the acidification of ocean, unlimited water control, every control,

SPEAKER_29: yeah, free food eventually, because if food is a function of water and energy.

SPEAKER_66: Exactly. So it's like, okay, let's attack like, like, I think it's almost, you know, criminal that every major government isn't going like, this is our, our 10 plus, tens of billions of plus fusion programs. Now, by the way, distributed through, through innovators and network is generally speaking, a much better way to do this. That's part of the reason why we see all these innovation within that

SPEAKER_16: kind of context. And that kind of thing is, I think a really important thing to do. Um, there is,

SPEAKER_01: by the way, an AI application. I'm not sure it's yet good on fusion, but they are beginning to say, hey, could we use AI to figure out the containment of the fusion? It's like, wow, interesting, right? It may not work, but it's again, like, well, like, that's how, and across everything, protein folding and disease solving, everything else. What if it just points you in the right direction and

SPEAKER_101: says like, over here, and it's like, over here is the planet that's inhabitable closest to our solar system. It's like, okay, there's our, or, you know, hey, how do you create a biosphere? It's like, well, maybe something over here. At least it would just take the subset of, you know, problem,

SPEAKER_10: the problem set down to something manageable. And again, if we're 30%, if everybody's 30% more efficient, including the people working on fusion. Well, that's pretty powerful that every third year

SPEAKER_101: comes out of the compounding comes out of their roadmap. Okay. But you're saying governments, the fact that governments are not just throwing, you know, 10 billion 100 billion at this while we're fighting crazy wars all over the planet and buying B2 bombers or whatever, just be a lot easier to

SPEAKER_36: just solve the energy prices and have people stop fighting over water and food and energy. Yes. Like, like,

SPEAKER_23: let's solve energy, right? I mean, it's, it's a super important thing. By the way, a little footnote

SPEAKER_21: because, you know, um, early sci-fi film, uh, kind of misled everyone to think planet colonization is the

SPEAKER_16: important thing. I actually think that if you do all the math, actually, in fact, creating space

SPEAKER_21: habitats is going to be the actual thing. Silent running? Yeah, well, but you know, obviously, Hollywood always tends to be the, you know, the, the horror version of it. Yeah. But like, you know,

SPEAKER_66: when you think about it and say, hey, what would you be doing if you were designing something from

SPEAKER_01: scratch in a, in a space habitat as a way of doing it? And that's a much easier project than either a terraforming or B going lots of light years. Yeah. I mean, have you seen Bruce Dern and silent running?

SPEAKER_36: No, I haven't. No. So you got to see silent running 1972. It's, it's kind of Elon's original vision that got him into space, which is he wanted to put geo, what are they called geodesic domes? Like, Oh, yeah, they want to put, he wanted to back up the biosphere was ease first concept. Like, let's put everything up there. Well, the backup for seeds instead of seed lockers in some mountain. It's very silent running is a story of Bruce Dern as a character. And there's like an R2D2 in it

SPEAKER_13: years before, uh, you know, Lucas came up with it. Watch it this weekend. It's like, well, it's part of that Logan's run era of like, really interesting sci fi, you know, um, Westworld, I'm trying to figure

SPEAKER_39: out what else was in that little cohort of like 70 sci fi. Uh, but really fascinating one, one,

SPEAKER_299: three, eight, there's others, but yeah. Yeah. So there's a bunch of them in there. Uh, listen,

SPEAKER_13: uh, this has been great. Thanks for coming back on the program. It's been, I'm trying to figure out when the last time you were on, here we go. Oh, you weren't on that long ago. You were on in February,

SPEAKER_302: 2021, but then that there was one time you were on before that. And for that, that was the time in

SPEAKER_173: the office. Cause we were just carousing and yeah, I got this new podcast. Can I just talk to you about

SPEAKER_10: LinkedIn? And you're like, yeah, come down. I was like, yeah, let's do that. I'll get some microphones.

SPEAKER_36: And here we are with these podcasts. Crazy. Uh, continued success with everything. It's great that you're working on it all. Uh, anything we missed here or anything that you're just keeping you up at night about this or just getting you super motivated or things you've seen that are

SPEAKER_29: super prescient in the space? No, I think we covered a lot of ground. We covered a lot of ground and

SPEAKER_309: we could easily do another hour, right? So I don't think both our voices would be gone. What

SPEAKER_102: about Google? This is the, this was the around the poker table last night. We had a big discussion. I know your team, Microsoft's I gotta be careful here. You're on the board of Microsoft, but just

SPEAKER_36: objectively, they seem to be going a little bit slow here and there seems to be some risk aversion. Your new partner was the, one of the guys from deep mind, right? Uh, so what, what's your take on Google's progress here? Are, are, are they hopelessly behind or are they going to catch up?

SPEAKER_117: They're certainly not hopelessly behind. I mean, they're, they're a bunch of super smart people.

SPEAKER_16: They have compute infrastructure. A lot of the, you know, techniques that are being deployed right now, um, were actually in fact developed or pioneered. Um, you know, the first versions of the

SPEAKER_21: elements of were pioneered at Google. Yeah. Um, so I think there's a bunch of stuff there and they have a whole bunch of very smart people. Uh, not least the deep mind crew, but also the brain crew and a bunch of others. And, you know, I think that's, you know, good for the world and all the rest. Um, I do think they have a bit of a innovators dilemma problem because, you know, people

SPEAKER_66: kind of rather have an answer than 10 blue links in a lot of cases. And Yep. You see some of the thrashing about trying to figure that out, which is part of the thing. And, you know, it's good for them. I mean, they, they basically spent,

SPEAKER_21: you know, a decade plus feeling like they didn't have any competition. And, you know, now, you know, having a game on is, is, is good for the marketplace.

SPEAKER_200: Yeah. It's a kick in the butt. And you look at what happened with Microsoft missing mobile

SPEAKER_101: that will come up. Right. And they were like, okay, can't miss the next thing. And this is the

SPEAKER_10: next thing and they're not missing it. So sometimes you need a little wake up call. I was looking at

SPEAKER_36: their assets that Gmail docs, Chrome, Android, YouTube, you just look at those data sets. Like you open up Gmail and forget about just like completing sentences. But if I could talk to my Gmail and have it give me trends of what's going on in my email box for the last 20 years or my documents, or when I'm on YouTube, I say, Hey, listen, I want to hear some interesting discussions about sci-fi films from the seventies. I could type sci-fi films in the seventies and find four things that are titled that, but there might be actual discussions where Quentin Tarantino in an interview pulls that out and make me a super cut of it. Right. Like how it's just brainstorming about. And then Chrome knows, you know, so much about our behavior. There's a lot of opportunity there, but they seem to be playing not to lose and like maybe protecting the franchise. I think

SPEAKER_113: they got to forget about protecting the franchise. People will keep searching, but you got to put some chat GPT like boxes on the side of all of this stuff, man. I just think YouTube plus AI, the mind

SPEAKER_66: goes, Whoa. Yeah. A whole bunch of smart people, a whole bunch of assets. I think they have like

SPEAKER_16: seven properties that have over a billion Dow, right? Like, you know, it's like, okay, like just huge. And, you know, credit to Satya and the Microsoft team of like aggressively getting back in

SPEAKER_137: the game by being smart early and moving. What's where and where's Apple on this? Cause they're so

SPEAKER_36: precious. And we are now in a, like, let's put this out here with a disclaimer. And Apple had serious time. I mean, I, I wonder like their perfectionism is going to be the enemy

SPEAKER_101: of progress here for them. You think? Yeah, for sure. I mean, look,

SPEAKER_173: just line up Siri versus chat GPT and go, oops, you know, um, or Alexa. Yeah. Yeah. And, and not, yeah, or Alexa. And in, you know, like for example, the fact that, you know, Apple's cloud services are kind of completely anemic. Um, you know, like they don't, they don't, I mean, there's a curse, amazing company, amazing work on the chips, amazing stuff on the iPhone. I mean, of course,

SPEAKER_16: but like, look, these are the new tech waves and the new tech waves actually, in fact, really matter.

SPEAKER_326: Um, so. Can't miss them. If you miss the wave, like, I mean, it can be just brutal. All right,

SPEAKER_29: listen, it's great to have you back on the program. Reed Hoffman, everybody, uh, check out,

SPEAKER_10: uh, check out, he's hiring, uh, for this new, uh, startup. And if you're interested in working there,

SPEAKER_328: you could Google or go to the website. What's the website? Inflection.ai. All right,

SPEAKER_29: go to the careers page there. Okay. I mean, developers around the world are like embracing this, like nothing I've ever seen. So it seems like a pretty good place to go. They got some pretty smart folks over there. So go, go get a job and, uh, we'll see you all next time on this week in startups. Bye bye.