* . *
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Earth-News
  • Home
  • Business
  • Entertainment
    Free Live Entertainment – Fremont Street Experience

    Enjoy Free Live Entertainment on Fremont Street Tonight!

    What to Know About ‘Good Morning America’s 50th Anniversary Episode – Wyoming News Now

    Celebrate the Milestone: Everything You Need to Know About Good Morning America’s 50th Anniversary Episode

    Dylan Efron suffers brutal nose injury in ‘DWTS’ rehearsals – Yahoo

    Dylan Efron Endures Painful Nose Injury During ‘DWTS’ Rehearsals

    Person shot, injured in parking lot of adult entertainment club in Gresham – KPTV

    Person Shot and Injured in Gresham Adult Entertainment Club Parking Lot

    Meet Belynda From ‘Married at First Sight’ Season 19: Age, Job, Instagram and More – Yahoo

    Meet Belynda from ‘Married at First Sight’ Season 19: Age, Career, Instagram & More Revealed!

    General Hospital’s Rena Sofer Exits as Lois — But the Door Isn’t Closed – Yahoo

    General Hospital’s Rena Sofer Exits as Lois — But the Door Isn’t Closed – Yahoo

  • General
  • Health
  • News

    Cracking the Code: Why China’s Economic Challenges Aren’t Shaking Markets, Unlike America’s” – Bloomberg

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Technology
    Nigeria’s government is using digital technology to repress citizens. A researcher explains how – The Conversation

    Nigeria’s government is using digital technology to repress citizens. A researcher explains how – The Conversation

    CPE Technology Berhad (KLSE:CPETECH) Has Affirmed Its Dividend Of MYR0.015 – Yahoo Finance

    CPE Technology Berhad (KLSE:CPETECH) Has Affirmed Its Dividend Of MYR0.015 – Yahoo Finance

    Researchers Discover New Bacterium That Turns Food Waste Into Energy – Technology Networks

    Scientists Unveil Breakthrough Bacterium That Transforms Food Waste Into Clean Energy

    Jim Cramer on GSI Technology: “That Thing is a Rocket Ship” – Yahoo Finance

    Jim Cramer Labels GSI Technology a “Rocket Ship” Poised for Takeoff

    The Anti-Tech Backlash Is Going to Grow Stronger – Jacobin

    The Anti-Tech Backlash Is Gaining Unstoppable Momentum

    Comments to EU Regarding the Draft Revised Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation and Technology Transfer Guidelines – Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

    Have Your Say: Share Your Thoughts on the Draft Revised Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation and Guidelines

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Business
  • Entertainment
    Free Live Entertainment – Fremont Street Experience

    Enjoy Free Live Entertainment on Fremont Street Tonight!

    What to Know About ‘Good Morning America’s 50th Anniversary Episode – Wyoming News Now

    Celebrate the Milestone: Everything You Need to Know About Good Morning America’s 50th Anniversary Episode

    Dylan Efron suffers brutal nose injury in ‘DWTS’ rehearsals – Yahoo

    Dylan Efron Endures Painful Nose Injury During ‘DWTS’ Rehearsals

    Person shot, injured in parking lot of adult entertainment club in Gresham – KPTV

    Person Shot and Injured in Gresham Adult Entertainment Club Parking Lot

    Meet Belynda From ‘Married at First Sight’ Season 19: Age, Job, Instagram and More – Yahoo

    Meet Belynda from ‘Married at First Sight’ Season 19: Age, Career, Instagram & More Revealed!

    General Hospital’s Rena Sofer Exits as Lois — But the Door Isn’t Closed – Yahoo

    General Hospital’s Rena Sofer Exits as Lois — But the Door Isn’t Closed – Yahoo

  • General
  • Health
  • News

    Cracking the Code: Why China’s Economic Challenges Aren’t Shaking Markets, Unlike America’s” – Bloomberg

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Technology
    Nigeria’s government is using digital technology to repress citizens. A researcher explains how – The Conversation

    Nigeria’s government is using digital technology to repress citizens. A researcher explains how – The Conversation

    CPE Technology Berhad (KLSE:CPETECH) Has Affirmed Its Dividend Of MYR0.015 – Yahoo Finance

    CPE Technology Berhad (KLSE:CPETECH) Has Affirmed Its Dividend Of MYR0.015 – Yahoo Finance

    Researchers Discover New Bacterium That Turns Food Waste Into Energy – Technology Networks

    Scientists Unveil Breakthrough Bacterium That Transforms Food Waste Into Clean Energy

    Jim Cramer on GSI Technology: “That Thing is a Rocket Ship” – Yahoo Finance

    Jim Cramer Labels GSI Technology a “Rocket Ship” Poised for Takeoff

    The Anti-Tech Backlash Is Going to Grow Stronger – Jacobin

    The Anti-Tech Backlash Is Gaining Unstoppable Momentum

    Comments to EU Regarding the Draft Revised Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation and Technology Transfer Guidelines – Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

    Have Your Say: Share Your Thoughts on the Draft Revised Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation and Guidelines

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
No Result
View All Result
Earth-News
No Result
View All Result
Home Science

Watch a tech billionaire talk to his AI-generated clone

May 2, 2024
in Science
Watch a tech billionaire talk to his AI-generated clone
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

The deepfake double picks its nose in a very weird interview.

By

Andrew Paul

|

Published May 1, 2024 3:12 PM EDT

Side by side of Reid AI deepfake and Reid Hoffman

Both Hoffmans appear to miss the larger point during their lengthy interview. YouTube

Billionaire LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman has recently released a video ‘interview’ with his new digital avatar, Reid AI. Built on a custom GPT trained on two decades’ worth of Hoffman’s books, articles, speeches, interviews, and podcasts, Reid AI utilizes speech and video deepfake technology to create a digital clone capable of approximating its source subject’s mannerisms and conversational tone. For over 14 minutes, you can watch the two Hoffmans gaze lovingly and dead-eyed, respectively, into the tech industry’s uncanny navel. In doing so, viewers aren’t offered a “way to be better, to be more human,” as the real Hoffman argues—but a way towards a misguided, dangerous, unethical, and hollow future.

AI photo

Many people might shudder at the idea of unleashing a talking, animated AI avatar of themselves into the world, but the tech utopian “city of yesterday” investor sounds absolutely jazzed about it. According to an April 24 blog post, he finds the whole prospect so “interesting and thought-provoking,” in fact, that he recently partnered with generative AI video company Hour One and the AI audio startup 11ElevenLabs to make it happen. (If that latter name sounds familiar, it’s because 11ElevenLabs’ product is what scammers misused to create those audio deepfake Biden robocalls earlier this year.)

After teasing a showcase of his digital clone for months, Hoffman finally revealed a (heavily edited) video conversation between himself and “Reid AI” last week. And what does the cutting-edge, deepfake-animated culmination of a custom built GPT-4 chatbot reportedly trained on all things Hoffman? A solid question—and one that isn’t easy to answer after watching the surreal, awkward, and occasionally unhygienic simulated interaction.

“Why would I want to be interviewed by a digital version of myself?” Hoffman posits at the video’s outset. First and foremost, it’s apparently to summarize one of his books for an array of potential audience demographics: the smartest person in the world, 5-year-old children, Seinfeld fans, and Klingons. While Hoffman seems to love each subsequent Blitzscaling encapsulation (particularly the “smartest person” one) they all sound like it came from a ChatGPT prompt—which, technically, they did. The difference here is that, instead of only a text answer, the words get a Hoffman vocal approximation layered atop of a (still clearly artificial) video rendering of the man.

Amidst all his excitement, Hoffman—like so many influential tech industry figures—yet again betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of how generative AI works. Technology like OpenAI’s GPT, no matter how gussied up with visual and audio additions, is not capable of comprehension. When an AI responds, “Thank you” or “I think that’s a great point,” they don’t actually experience gratitude or think anything. Generative AI sees sentences as lines of code, each letter or space followed by the next, most probably letter or space. This can be adapted into conversational audio and dubbed to video personas, but that doesn’t change the underlying functionality. It simply received new symbolic input that influences what basically amounts to a superpowered autocorrect system. Even if its language is set to Klingon, as Reid AI offers at one point.

So when Reid AI warns Hoffman a wrong answer may result “because I misinterpreted the information you gave, or I don’t have the full context of your question,” Hoffman doesn’t pause to explain any of the above facts for viewers. He instead moves along to his next conversation point, which usually involves a plug for his books or LinkedIn.

[Related: A deepfake ‘Joe Biden’ robocall told voters to stay home for primary election.]

Meanwhile, Reid AI’s visual component is supposedly meant to simulate many of Hoffman’s conversational mannerisms and queues. Judging from Reid AI’s performance, these largely boil down to stilted attempts at “nodding vigorously,” “emphatically tapping to illustrate a point,” and “picking his nose.” As New Atlas points out, the moment at 10:44 is an odd quirk to include in such a clearly condensed and edited video—perhaps meant to illustrate some of humanity’s more awkward, relatable traits. If so, it does little to distract from the far more absurd and troubling sentiments said by both Hoffman’s.

Reid AI expounds on boilerplate techno-libertarian talking points for fostering a “framework that fuels innovation.” Hoffman repeatedly opines that any concerns about bias, privacy, labor, and digital ownership concerns are just “start[ing] with the negative and [not realizing] all the things that are positive.” The digital clone regurgitates bland, uncreative ways to spruce up Hoffman’s LinkedIn page, like adding “personal flair” such as a fun and colorful header image.

Reid AI and Reid Hoffman side by sideCredit: YouTube

But the most worrisome moment arrives when Hoffman contends “Everyone should be asking themselves, ‘What can I do to help?’” make AI like digital avatars more commonplace. He even goes so far as to equate the current technological era to Europe’s adoption of the steam engine, which made it “such a dominant force in the entire world.” (Neither he, nor Reid AI, concede the other tools involved in the industrial revolution, of course—namely a colonialist system built on the labor of millions of exploited and enslaved populations.)

Hoffman says future iterations of Reid AI will add “to the range of capabilities, of things that I could do.” It’s an extremely telling sentiment—one implying people like Hoffman have no qualms with erasing any demarcation between their cloned and authentic selves. If nothing else, Hoffman has already found at least one task Reid AI can handle for him.

“I am curious to know what others’ thoughts are on how to mitigate impersonation and all other types of risks stemming from such a use-case and achieve ‘responsible AI,’” one LinkedIn user asked him in his announcement post’s comments.

“Great question… Here is Reid AI’s answer,” Hoffman responded alongside a link to a new avatar clip.

Andrew Paul

>>> Read full article>>>
Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source : Popular Science – https://www.popsci.com/technology/ai-clone-interview/

Tags: billionairescienceWatch
Previous Post

Ancient farm practice could help sustain future humans on Mars

Next Post

Giorgos Giakoumakis: What defines Atlanta United’s Greek God of goals? | MLSSoccer.com

TwinEco: A unified framework for dynamic data-driven digital twins in ecology – ScienceDirect.com

TwinEco: Transforming Ecology Through Dynamic, Data-Driven Digital Twins

October 28, 2025
How to watch Tennessee high school girls soccer: Science Hill vs. Bearden, Oct. 28 – USA TODAY High School Sports

Don’t Miss the Exciting Tennessee High School Girls Soccer Showdown: Science Hill vs. Bearden on Oct. 28!

October 28, 2025
Scientists Just Mapped 2,600 Dreams – And Found Something Shocking – Yahoo

Scientists Map 2,600 Dreams and Uncover a Shocking Secret

October 28, 2025
Cat Learning “How To Get a Boyfriend” From Her Mom Is Adorably Hilarious – Yahoo

Cat’s Hilariously Adorable Journey Learning “How To Get a Boyfriend” From Her Mom

October 28, 2025
Nigeria’s government is using digital technology to repress citizens. A researcher explains how – The Conversation

Nigeria’s government is using digital technology to repress citizens. A researcher explains how – The Conversation

October 28, 2025
Panthers vs Bills game review: Déjà vu – Yahoo Sports

Panthers vs Bills: A Thrilling Déjà Vu Showdown

October 28, 2025
Shohei Ohtani Hits 2 Homers, Ties 119-Year-Old Record In Dodgers’ World Series Game 3 Win – FOX Sports

Shohei Ohtani Hits 2 Homers, Ties 119-Year-Old Record In Dodgers’ World Series Game 3 Win – FOX Sports

October 28, 2025
Trump’s ‘golden age’ economic message undercut by his desire for much lower interest rates – which typically signal a weak jobs market – The Conversation

Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ Economy Questioned as Calls for Lower Interest Rates Reveal Job Market Weakness

October 28, 2025
Free Live Entertainment – Fremont Street Experience

Enjoy Free Live Entertainment on Fremont Street Tonight!

October 28, 2025

SGMC Health Launches Lung Nodule Clinic to Advance Early Detection and Treatment of Lung Cancer – SGMC Health

October 28, 2025

Categories

Archives

October 2025
M T W T F S S
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  
« Sep    
Earth-News.info

The Earth News is an independent English-language daily published Website from all around the World News

Browse by Category

  • Business (20,132)
  • Ecology (890)
  • Economy (912)
  • Entertainment (21,783)
  • General (17,856)
  • Health (9,953)
  • Lifestyle (925)
  • News (22,149)
  • People (913)
  • Politics (922)
  • Science (16,123)
  • Sports (21,412)
  • Technology (15,892)
  • World (895)

Recent News

TwinEco: A unified framework for dynamic data-driven digital twins in ecology – ScienceDirect.com

TwinEco: Transforming Ecology Through Dynamic, Data-Driven Digital Twins

October 28, 2025
How to watch Tennessee high school girls soccer: Science Hill vs. Bearden, Oct. 28 – USA TODAY High School Sports

Don’t Miss the Exciting Tennessee High School Girls Soccer Showdown: Science Hill vs. Bearden on Oct. 28!

October 28, 2025
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact

© 2023 earth-news.info

No Result
View All Result

© 2023 earth-news.info

No Result
View All Result

© 2023 earth-news.info

Go to mobile version