> answer seems to be "we don't, he's on the board of a competiting AI company"
That seems like a good reason to listen to him? He is prominently placed in the field. Has a lot to lose by knowingly making false statements in public about a competitor. And has an incentive (and the resources with which) to dig deeply into them in a way e.g. a trash-talking YouTuber does not.
He has his set of biases. But Board member at a multi-trillion dollar established software and AI kingmaker seems like a weird way to dismiss an opinion.
No he isn't. He's the LinkedIn guy. That's his only success. Good for him but the LinkedIn founder doesn't know anything baout AI.
> Has a lot to lose by knowingly making false statements in public about a competitor.
The article ignores the conflict of interest - Hoffman is introduced as:
> Reid Hoffman has watched the AI industry from virtually every vantage point—as a founder, a lead investor and as a decade-long Microsoft board member.
they don't say:
"Reid invested in both OpenAI and Anthropic" which seems to indicate that Fortune think they can get away with lying through omission.
FWIW, leaving aside his professional activities (such as the fact that he's currently the co-founder of two AI startups) he is probably the first billionaire to create an "AI clone" of himself, complete with a deepfake video avatar and voice-cloning, trained on all the content he has ever produced (books, articles, interviews, videos):
The interviews are not real-time and are heavily edited, of course, but he's probably one of the few tech execs who've spent so much money and time to personally explore AI.
His LinkedIn profile lists manas.ai, which is pretty new, and inflection.ai, which has been around for a few years. Inflection released Pi, which was the first chatbot I encountered that kept conversations very interactive by asking clarifying and follow-up questions, whereas ChatGPT and others were very transactional.
However it is probably known more (if at all) for being the company Microsoft "Windsurfed" by licensing all its tech and poaching its leadership team, including the dude who's the current "CEO of AI" at MSFT.
The answer seems to be "we don't, he's on the board of a competiting AI company"