alt Hacker News> He is prominently placed in the field.
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):
https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1ccol5y/reid_h...
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.