"Reid Hoffman loves AI. So much so that, for Christmas, instead of fuzzy socks or wool sweaters, he gave his friends and family an AI music album. The LinkedIn cofounder and Greylock partner, who Forbes estimates has a $2.5 billion net worth, recently told Wired he generated silly Christmas songs using AI and pressed them onto records. To create the Christmas music, Hoffman said he used two different AI agents: one to write the lyrics and another to compose the music."
"The Christmas surprise comes as Hoffman has been talking about AI while promoting a new book published with journalist Greg Beato titled "Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future." In it, the two argue that AI doesn't need to be a dystopian technology destined to displace workers or lead to human extinction, as some more pessimistic about the technology have warned."
Reid Hoffman used AI systems to generate a comedic Christmas music album, pressing the songs onto records and gifting them to friends and family. He employed two different AI agents—one for lyrics and another for composition—and said recipients were told the music was AI-generated. He reported that his wife could not distinguish the recordings from human-made music. The specific tools used were not disclosed and are not listed in Greylock's portfolio. Hoffman co-wrote a book, Superagency, promoting an optimistic view that AI need not be dystopian and warning that skeptics repeat past tech-cynic traps.
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