Reid Hoffman

“One of the things I realized over the last month was that, we’re seeing such progress with Manas. I need to get back to founder mode,”

“And so you don’t want to be saying, ‘Hey, as opposed to being the England of the Industrial Revolution, we’re going to be the Poland of the Industrial Revolution.’”

“Like if you do the analysis of rising electricity costs, it has no correlation with the data centers, or even what is relatively modest AI usage so far. And yet all blame for increasing electricity prices today is AI.”

“I obviously feel enormously bad that it took me a few years to understand kind of what the monstrosity was,”

“Just about everything is going to be blamed on AI,”

“The talent race to your average American looks crazy. The amount of money you're paying individuals in order to do this,”

“The fact that universities have not changed, and it's like, 'Well, but I already have my curriculum, and this is the way I've been teaching it for the last X decades,' etc.”

“Wishing for the 1950s past is a bad mistake,”

“Every month, every year, every week that there’s earlier [AI] access causes human goodness,”

“XAI is, as Elon himself has described, it's a complete train wreck for its kind of building of foundational models and other kinds of things.”

“It wasn’t like we rolled in, and it was like ‘Oh, that was fun and easy,’”

“OK, there was a certain amount of blood lost on that one.”