It helps support our work, and lets us know what types of pieces are resonating. Small ask: If you liked this piece and wouldn’t mind ❤️ ’ing it in the header above, I’d be incredibly grateful. I am thrilled to feature him today – these are his meditations. It is perhaps no surprise, given Reid’s range of interests, and literary, philosophical bent, that I have admired his work for many years. Both projects are “co-authored” with GPT-4, bringing artificial intelligence quite literally into the conversation.
In just the past few weeks, Reid has also launched a future-focused podcast, “ Possible ,” and released a new book, Impromptu, discussing how AI can be used to “amplify” humanity. As well as being a former OpenAI board member, Reid co-founded Inflection AI with Greylock colleague and former Deepmind executive Mustafa Suleyman. Reid is also at the forefront of some of the most consequential changes happening in the world of artificial intelligence.
He is a builder with a Wittgenstein obsession, a venture capitalist that cites Buddha and Aristotle. The LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock partner is a technologist with a deep, unabashed philosophical bent. As the technological frontier extends, sprinting out of sight (and beyond our abilities), fields like philosophy, psychology, history, and fiction are becoming increasingly essential.įew people embody the intersection of techno-humanism as clearly as Reid Hoffman. Creating these marvels undoubtedly requires technical ability, but truly grasping them benefits from a broader understanding. We live in an era of increasingly splendid machines and overpowering intelligences. However, one of The Generalist’s fundamental tenets is that it is also a humanistic discipline. Technology is often (and rightly) viewed as a scientific field. Where is the rigor in a poem? What is the output of a philosophical tract? It is with a degree of suspicion that some technologists treat the humanities.
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