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In February Hoffman published his first book, The Start-Up of You, which does in fact try to help us figure out who we all should be. "The future," he says, "is sooner and stranger than you think." He elaborates at length on why he sees data as "Web 3.0" and why every business needs a "big data strategy." In the session after that, he explains why the potential of mobile computing would likely take three more years to be realized and why "biology as code" would soon spur extraordinary innovations. On this November afternoon, Hoffman is here to cochair a four-day conference called " Silicon Valley Comes to the UK." At the podium, the would-be philosopher proves that he still has some very big ideas to discuss. So I decided I would be a software entrepreneur instead." "Academia wasn't the right platform," he says. "I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we all should be." Within months of starting his term, though, Hoffman concluded that spending decades answering a single philosophical question might not have sufficient impact on the world. "What I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture," the 44-year-old LinkedIn cofounder reflects over lunch during one of his regular trips back to the UK. After Stanford, he took a Marshall scholarship so he could ponder the great ideas at Oxford. I'm writing this travelog both to encourage people to not only get to know GPT-4, but to embrace our choice of how we’ll use it, and explore the different ways this choice might play out.Reid Hoffman dreamed of becoming a philosopher. These paths will be well-trodden soon (if not already) by others. My travelog, Impromptu, captures my treks with GPT-4. The goal, like in any good trip, was to learn as much about my traveling partner as the place I was exploring.Įarlier this year, I organized my explorations with GPT-4 into sections: creativity, education, criminal justice, public intellectualism, journalism and more. With GPT-4, I traveled through light bulb jokes, epic poems, original sci fi plots, arguments about human nature, musings on how AI might strengthen democracy, society and industries. My pages were quickly filled with stamps: Over 1,000 prompts. It felt like I had a new kind of passport. This, as far as I know, is the first book written with GPT-4. It’s called Impromptu: Amplifying our Humanity through AI.

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