Name: Brainstorm AI 2023: Looking Back, and Ahead, on ChatGPT’s One-Year Anniversary
Uploaded: 2023-12-13
Duration: 15 min 27 s
Description: Reid Hoffman, Partner, Greylock Moderator: Rana el Kaliouby, Affectiva; Brainstorm AI

Reid Hoffman, Partner, Greylock Moderator: Rana el Kaliouby, Affectiva; Brainstorm AI

Brainstorm AI 2023:  Looking Back, and Ahead, on ChatGPT’s One-Year Anniversary

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Our next speaker was involved with Open A I since its founding in 2015, he sat on the board from 2018. Yes, that board until March of this year. He's also co founded his own Generative A I Start Up Inflection A I which has its own chatbot pi since we have just passed the one year anniversary of chat GPT S launch. We're thrilled to welcome back to brainstorm A I Greylock S Reid Hoffman to discuss the advancements Jenner of A I has made in the last year and what he believes the future holds at open A I and its competitors. Please welcome Reid Hoffman and Fortune Brainstorm A I co chair and co founder and CEO of fect Dr Rana LKK. Good morning, everybody. Thank you for being with us to reflect on chat GP ts first year anniversary. We were here last year and lots of happened at G BT is now one. Right. Exactly. So I have to start with the question that is on all our minds. What happened at Open A I? And, and did you see it coming? Because you, you stepped off the board in March and um let's see, a couple of things to say very quickly. I think the structure is fine. Um I do think that uh the notion of how, how do we get to do various kinds of public interest, tech. Um, you know, I was also on the board of Mozilla Corporation for a number of years and that's a for profit owned completely by the foundation. I think the structure is fine just to be, you know, because some people speculated about that. I do think from, I only really have mostly public information and obviously anything is nonpublic, I'm not really allowed to comment on. Um But the uh yeah, I think it's a failure of board governance that's pretty obvious uh in our ways and boards are composed of people uh making decisions and maybe there's information to come out that we have yet to see. But I do think that it's pretty well resolved that um uh Sam uh is an amazing CEO. I'm really glad he's back in place, I think um the whole team, uh Greg Ilya Mira Sam and all everyone else has built amazing things and that's very important for humanity in various ways. So I'm glad that I got back there, but it was um you know, uh it was, it was some interesting moments because I learned about it the same way the rest of the world did, which is I looked at a blog post. OK. Um As open A I continues to grow. Should it keep its unusual cap profit structure? Well, I think um it definitely can. Um And I think these get to, I mean, I I was uh you know, collaborating with Sam and the rest of the team as they created it and part of their um they're thoughtful about what their focus is, is about how do we both create this uh amazing new technology, how do we bring in commercial incentives and, and use them but also still stay very focused on the key mission of how is a G I for the benefit of humanity. And uh that's part of what I love about the organization. I love about uh about the stuff they've done and I think was part of probably what was motivating the board too. Um because I know they care about it. I've, I've worked with all of the uh you know, uh current and former board members and I think this is a, this is super important and can be expressed in a number of different ways that inflection we did a public benefit Corp. Um You know, uh at Mozilla, it was a for profit Corp owned by a foundation. Um I think these structures can be good and you just have to be clear and transparent about what it is you're managing to and how that, how that uh how that works. So you were here exactly a year ago when Chat TPT launched, I wanted to take a few minutes and just reflect on the year. So what, you know, what excited you the most, what surprised you the most. So um one of the things that was kind of a surprise around chat G BT was uh the, the, the model that it was based on when it was released 3.5 had already been pre had been publicly live for months. Uh And so, uh while it was not a huge surprise because that was part of what we were doing with inflection and pies having a chat interface really made it much more universally accessible, much more tangible to human hands and, and, and human amplification. The fact that the 3.5 model had already been live. Um You know, I knew that the, the open A I folks were going, we're getting ready for doing our agent and ready for GB D four and, and this, we're getting, you know, information they didn't expect it to kind of go, oh my gosh, it's here. Uh And so that was a huge, you know, kind of like pick up and surprise. The other thing that I think has been delightful by seeing it out there is the kinds of use cases. So like for example, um a friend of mine's daughter is really into organic chemistry and what she uses uh you know, uh chat G BT GB D 44 is she goes and finds an organic chemistry academic paper, uh speaking to the, the person who's academically competent here and, and posts it into chat CBD and says, I'm a 15 year old. Explain this to me that just begins to give you the kinds of breadth of use cases that you can use these amazing A I tools for uh in order to, to, to make this happen. And like, for example, like on um you know, like for example, like surprised me, one of the people at Greylock office uh the new mom and uses inflections pie for parenting advice, like, like, oh, I just have my new kid, what should I do? And it's like, and she's like, OK, I know it's not a pediatrician. And so I'll cross check anything important, but it's there 24 hours a day ready to, to these questions for me. And so far it's been really good. And so that's the kind of thing like it's this range of human circumstances. That is part of the reason why I wrote impromptu because it's like, no, no, the human amplification is right there. Let's do it. And I think it's not maybe a surprise as much as it's a delight. So I have to say my, my who's 15 years old, he also uses Chat GPT but not to summarize organic chemistry papers, but to ask it how to make steak and like he almost burnt the house down the other day. So I'm going to tell him why aren't you summarizing? Hopefully not because of what chat GBT. Yeah. Apparently he told him to put the steak in the oven, which I think is supposed to be ok. Anyway. But, but, but it's awesome seeing these young people leverage these technologies. I'm actually, I'm gonna talk about this grand vision that you've laid out. You want to see every person have access to a personal A I assistant. And that's why you started with Mustafa Suleiman infection dot A I and P. What's your, yeah, tell us more about like some of the use cases. Where do you see going future? Well, one of the things that Mustafa and Karen had is a really great idea because, you know, there's so much fast moving in the creation of A I, it's like, well, what, what's gonna look like in three years? What's it gonna look like in five years? What, what are things given so much development? And one of the things that, um, they, we settled on was, uh, that everyone's going to have their own personal intelligence, their own pie, their own thing and it's for you and, and your, your thing might be. Well, I'm just, I'm, I'm a new mom and I'm navigating this. Your thing might be, you know, I'm, I'm figuring out this problem at work. Your thing might be, uh, how do I fix the toaster? Your thing might be? I want to have a philosophical conversation, like whatever that might be for you and, and, and then be different for each of us. And part of the thing I think is very cool about all of the hard work that the rest of the inflection team has done. You know, I think we're the best at the dialogue and I think we're the second best working on it for the large language models after chat G BT. And I think that, that that's a function of the fact that the team Musta Karen have picked, you know, great people from a number of the companies and it's a pound for pound as good as any team on the planet. And I know there's a lot of emphasis on building empathy in pie. And I think that's important. Can you comment on that? Yes. Well, uh oh and by the way, your feedback on this always super welcome that you're one of the world experts on this. But um part of the thing that people, uh uh we shape these agents and these agents in turn shape us. And so what we should be transparent and kind of what our goals are. And so, for example, with inflection and pie is be empathetic, be kind doesn't mean you don't have a point of view. So if you sit down with it and say, you know, I want to be a better racist that goes nope, not going to try to help you with that one. And let's talk about how not to be racist, you know, and so that kind of thing about um trying to help us become our better selves like you think about what the role of friendship is in life. And it's like these are people who try to help you become your better self. That's obviously what your personal intelligence should be too, that your interactions with it, help you with it. And, and one of the recommendations I give people and playing with it, I don't, whether it's Pie Chat G BT, any of them don't just go to it and say, OK, write me a Sonic. That's fine. That's clever. Like most of us can't do that. So it's good to do. Take something that's real to you, to them. It doesn't mean you'll always get an answer and sometimes you go oh less good for this, more good for this. But that real thing is when you begin to discover the magic of how it might amplify you. So let's talk a bit more about that. You've advocated for optimism around generative A I including in your latest book, impromptu amplifying your humanity through A I. Are you more or are you less optimistic now? Definitely more uh and part of it's because like, for example, when you get to the, there's so much dialogue about the risks of all sorts and that's by the way important, but risks are always framed about like where we're trying to get to and you know, from that time, I like I realized that that uh we GB D four is already a great, can be a great medical assistant if allowed to be 5 billion smartphones. Like like, you know, billions of people who do not have access to a doctor. You could do something as a tutor. We already talked about the chat G BT, but it's already there all of these forms of human amplification and yes, we need to pay attention to and be in the dialogue about the risks. But the real important thing is to not fumble the future. And I think that um that kind of question about uh like my, my challenge to the various people who talk about the risks and critics is they realize that if you just say like for example, if I describe a car to you as it's a two ton death machine, you might die and other people might crash into you and, and boy, we should resolve all that before you. We would go any further with this. Well, we wouldn't have cars today, right? This is the kind of thing that we need to get to it. And again, it's not saying look, I think the, oh, there are no risks with technology. Well, that's also bozo, it's we pay attention to them, but we're driving towards that amazing future and what role does regulation play, including, you know, President Biden's executive order, right? So I actually think the eo was broadly very, very good. I think that the question about saying uh look, talk to us when you get to a certain, there's a scale compute revolution when you get to a certain scale on the compute. Um you know, do some red teaming, do other things. I think that's a very good thing to start with. And it's, and it, and it articulates itself as a dynamic thing like it starts with. I always says, well, you know, who knows that that number of exo flops could be gained and da da da, it's like, yeah, yeah, if you look at the eo it says this is our first swag, we're working on it. It's a dynamic work on progress. And I think that's exactly the kind of approach we should be taking to critical technologies like A I and I applaud the administration for being both forward looking for being, you know, caring about humanity, but engaging in dialogue with industry, recognizing that it's dynamic, you know, being a kind of like, how do we make sure we get the best possible things for our citizens and for the world out of this while navigating the risks? And so I think that's, that's quite good. I do think that the, that the um the, the key thing that we think about regulation generally is when you begin to get intense about regulation, you very much slow down innovation. And part of what we're, what we have is I think we're going to have better tools even to navigate the risk in our future. So it's, it's, it's part of the reason why people say, well, on one hand, you've got these people talking about the risk. On the other hand, they're really working to build it. It's like, yes, because there's great things in the future and there's better ways of navigating the risks. And part of the reason we're in dialogue is to say, well, it's not just us building them, but we're building it for all of us. So let's have a dialogue about what the important things to do are. And the important things to avoid are one of the themes that have come up in the last day and a half at this conference is um the concerns around A I hallucinations and deep fakes with generative A I, especially around the upcoming election cycle. So, can you comment on how do we, I mean, I don't know if there's a way to avoid that, but does that concern you? It concerns me very much. Unfortunately, I think it's as generative A I and doing hallucinations, it's much easier to generate things that are complicating uh than others. I think that we will have to work on this. I think we will see uh players uh like the Russians and other folks interfering with our election uh for their own purposes. Um I think it will be up to the platforms to actually in fact, figure out the kind of defense strategies, I don't think A I by itself, even though the companies talk about watermarking content and all this. Well, that's from the models that are provided by open A I, by Bard, by Google, you know, you know, by Microsoft as ways of doing it, the Russians will be running open source models that don't have that water marking requirement and will be doing things about that. So I think it's a very important issue that we need to navigate and we need to be navigating it as a society. Um Just a few more seconds left. What excites you the most about the future? Um the next year, the next year. Exactly. Because a great way to look somewhat foolish is to make a prediction about technology that's X years out. Uh Look, I, I think that the key thing is and I think one of the things we should all be doing as technologists is how we help um elevate humanity through this. And what the problems that A I is potentially the problem to it can also be the solution to. So for example, a very important one is how does work transition? Well, A I can help with work transition, it can help people go. OK. That, that job category might be diminishing because of A I. How do I find other jobs? How do I learn them? How do I do them? Um That's what we want to be doing as an industry is making sure those tools are helping with that transition. So just like the steam engine was a massive transformation of society in industries, this is the steam engine in the mind. It will be a massive transition in work and so forth. But it can also help us with that transition and we can try to make it more human. Thank you, Reid. Here's the A I elevated humanity. Thank you so much. Thank you.