LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman Counters Elon Musk's AI Approach With 'Blitzscaling' Method to Propel Human Evolution

LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman has been a proponent for faster adoption of AI, and he has once again asked for "blitzscaling" it to speed up human evolution. His appeal runs counter to the "pause" on AI deployment proposed by Elon Musk, Apple Inc. AAPL co-founder Steve Wozniak, and others.

What Happened: Hoffman has asked for faster adoption of AI, believing that it will help humanity as a whole instead of harming it, as feared by Musk, Wozniak, and tech personalities.

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In an interview with Time, Hoffman believes that the faster we adopt and integrate AI into our lives, the faster will be human evolution.

"Every month, every year, every week that there's earlier [AI] access causes human goodness," he said.

Hoffman wants every home and job to have an AI assistant – his position is centered on the belief that AI will improve the quality of life in general instead of worsening it.

He also believes that AI is not doing anything new per se – many AI innovations we see now have already been "pioneered for decades". What's different this time, though, is the "scale revolution" that has sparked both awe and shock amongst everyone.

The Secret To Winning: According to Hoffman, the secret to winning a race is the speed-to-scale. Basically, he is talking about the first-mover advantage and the scale that the first-mover brings to the table.

This is evident in the case of Microsoft Corp.-backed MSFT OpenAI as well. ChatGPT, launched in November last year, caught the fancy of users by applying the learnings of large-language models at an unprecedented scale. After all, chatbots have been around for a few years now, but none have been as intelligent and conversational at the same time as ChatGPT.

He maintains his belief that pausing or slowing down AI development is a "mistaken effort" and that concerns are being blown out of proportion.

"I would bet you any sum of money you can get the hallucinations right down into the line of human-expert rate within months," he said, adding that he is "not really that worried" about it.

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