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  • Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI
  • By: Reid Hoffman
  • Narrated by: Scott Wallace
  • Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
  • 3.7 out of 5 stars (7 ratings)
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By: Reid Hoffman
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Summary

The Wall Street Journal best seller

Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI, written by Reid Hoffman with GPT-4, offers listeners a travelog of the future–exploring how AI, and especially Large Language Models like GPT-4, can elevate humanity across key areas like education, business, and creativity.

But, it's not just a book, it's a conversation. In a first, Hoffman doesn’t just write about GPT-4; he interacts and writes with GPT-4, letting readers see the technology’s capabilities—its strengths and limitations alike. Using GPT-4 as his “author’s co-pilot,” Hoffman paints an intriguing, challenging, and often entertaining picture of what’s possible: where trouble may arise, but also crucially, what could possibly go right. His conversation with AI takes us on a journey to the future, where AI is not a threat, but a partner. A partner that can help us unlock our full potential as human beings.

How might humanity use GPT-4 to continue our long-standing quest to make life more meaningful and prosperous? How can we use it to help solve some of the hardest challenges we face? To expand opportunities for self-determination and self-expression?

Along with solutions and opportunities, GPT-4 will also create its own challenges and uncertainties. Impromptu explores how we might address risk as we continue to develop AI technologies that can boost human progress at a time when the need for rapid solutions at scale has never been greater. Impromptu starts the conversation, and invites us to join that conversation to shape our collaborative journey and achieve our destiny.

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Insightful

Very interesting book, well presented, shows the potential for AI in a positive way.

NOTE TO PRODUCER: There was a glitch in the public intellectuals chapter where the audio repeated itself.

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Unique, Innovative and Utterly Fascinating!

This audiobook is amazing. Reid offers unique insights into the functionality, uses, and threats of GPT 4.0, the world’s first AI he co-funded. I enjoyed every moment of the six hours this audiobook lasted. I learned a lot of useful tips and tricks on how to improve my daily life, work, and hobbies using GPT 4.0. This perfectly produced audiobook is a fascinating and highly advisable listen for everyone who has an open mind for new technologies.

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Dull

Only listened to first 3 chapters then skipped ahead. Took an interesting topic and said nothing interesting about it, poor format and reads like marketing for LLM’s.

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