An interview with Vinod Khosla on how AI will “free humanity from the need to work”, seeing the AI future early, OpenAI investment, AI and geopolitics, and more
At nearly 70, Vinod Khosla is an elder statesman in Silicon Valley but he's been on top of the most cutting-edge trends, including artificial intelligence. Tweets: @mvzelenks , @rachaelrad , @sarthakgh , @rmantri , @cwarzel , @semafor , @carnage4life , and @reedalbergotti Tweets: Michael Zelenko / @mvzelenks : Big talk on empathy from the guy who waged a decade long campaign to close public access to a public beach because he didn't want to share it Vinod Khosla on how AI will ‘free humanity from the need to work’ https://www.semafor.com/... https://twitter.com/... Rachael Horwitz / @rachaelrad : I think the world will divide shortly into people who think we will be in charge of the AI (put it in charge of my inbox and plan kid parties!) and people who think AI will be in charge of us (Skynet). https://twitter.com/... Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh : “He's [Altman] working on AI. He's also working on fusion in a company called Helion. I'm working on Commonwealth Fusion, a competitor to Helion.” “I do want us to be sensitive to the fact that a couple of these technologies — AI being a dominant one and I think fusion is like... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Rajeev Mantri / @rmantri : I do worry that some technologies may take us into a WALL-E @Pixar style world. Wonder what that might mean... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel : this interview is very strange - especially how it elides all downsides of AI in the first part and then just tosses off the idea that the disruption is messy and “destroys lives” and there's really no pushback https://www.semafor.com/... https://twitter.com/... @semafor : 🟡 NEW: @vkhosla is an elder statesman in Silicon Valley but he's been on top of the most cutting-edge trends, including AI. @ReedAlbergotti interviews OpenAI's first VC investor in Semafor Tech: https://www.semafor.com/... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : America can't even agree on Universal Healthcare even though the math works out for it being cheaper and saving more lives because of the [racist] fear of freeloaders. The idea that many people will be unemployed and will be “freed” from work is hilarious. Free to do shit jobs. https://twitter.com/... Reed Albergotti / @reedalbergotti : I did an interview with @vkhosla and we touched on a handful of topics, including how he seemed to be able to see this AI revolution coming a decade ago with so much clarity. Read it here. (It was a lot of fun). https://www.semafor.com/...