Episode · Conversations with Tyler · 2023-06-28
Books mentioned on Reid Hoffman on the Possibilities of AI
In his second appearance, Reid Hoffman joined Tyler to talk everything AI: the optimal liability regime for LLMs, whether there'll be autonomous money-making bots, which agency should regulate AI, how
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Dune
Dune by Frank Herbert is a monumental science fiction masterpiece set on the desert planet Arrakis, centering on young Paul Atreides as his family becomes embroiled in a bitter struggle for control of the galaxy's most valuable resource, the spice melange.
Discussed“so it's like the Dune world with spice but it now it's electricity”
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The Dispossessed
The Dispossessed by Ursula K.
Discussed“I've been rereading Ursula Le Guin the dispossessed and I'm amazed how anti-utopian and almost right-wing it is”
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book Impromptu
“so for example in impromptu I have things that are poems I have light bulb jokes I have a whole bunch of stuff”
Own book Impromptu
“a book is made a book is made about AI with AI hence impromptu”
Own book Impromptu
“like I'm doing a chapter in impromptu which is like a Star Trek plot involving the person”