AI's Killer-App Isn't Chatbots, It's Social | Linkedin Founder Reid Hoffman
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Earlier this week, Mark Zuckerberg explained how Meta is making AI friends to supplement human friends, saying: “The average American has 3 friends, but has demand for 15.”
Reid Hoffman believes this is fundamentally the wrong approach. AI agents shouldn’t replace your human relationships but help you strengthen your relationship with them by acting as a facilitator.
Make no mistake, just like the internet, AI’s killer-app won’t be single player information retrieval (chatbots), but multiplayer social. And rival AI platforms are currently being built with radically different philosophies that mirror their internet predecessors:
Meta: have people spend as much time virtually as possible
Linkedin: use the virtual to facilitate real-world interactions
If you thought social media was influential in changing society, then the stakes of getting “AI Social” right are infinitely higher.
I sit down with Reid Hoffman to explore the full scope of “AI-Social” from how it will transform traditional social media to what friendships and romantic relationships with AIs could look like.
Topics we cover:
01:51 The Social Killer App for AI
09:35 The Secret to Creating Emotionally Intelligent AI
14:15 The Risk of AI Addiction
16:58 Could AI Follow the Same Dark Path as Social Media?
20:18 How Hoffman invests in the 7 deadly sins
25:36 Why AI Can't Replace Human Relationships
37:38 Our Fear of AI & Plato’s Fear of Books
48:42 How AI Could Change Philosophy
1:11:52 Why AI Benchmarks Matter More Than Regulation
1:13:23 The Most Important Skill of the Next Decade
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