He noted that he could imagine a far more dystopian future where companies have not put controls in place to “actually understand what’s being generated and why” by their A.I. “amplifies human creativity and productivity” and is broadly available across industries, but does not decrease the number of jobs available.īut a positive impact isn’t guaranteed, Motamedi added. Over the next decade, Hoffman envisions a utopian future where the application of A.I.

can be broken down into five considerations: “deployment, inference, time, consistency, and reliability.”įor instance, a call center can use previously collected data to build a new user design paradigm that learns from customers as they interact with the product, capturing “really rich and nuanced information that your model can learn from,” said Motamedi. For maximum impact, the model needs to have longevity in the industry-think decades, not just a few years.

Motamedi said he believes this application of A.I. advances into the customer’s environment to solve the problem at hand. in some way. Instead of focusing on companies that simply obtain the technology, he said, Greylock finds value in companies that are integrating A.I. Motamedi added that at this point, 90%-95% of the companies Greylock evaluates are leveraging A.I. Hoffman predicted that this technological advancement has the capacity to completely transform industries in as little as two years. “It becomes the new essential tool by which we do everything.”

“ doesn’t put graphic designers out of business,” he said. Hoffman said that Inflection sees itself as a “co-pilot” to human professionals rather than a replacement. systems to understand “natural language” instructions from human users-effectively allowing those users to amplify their own abilities. Inflection focuses on improving interactions between humans and computers by enabling A.I. Central to their conversation was Inflection, a machine learning startup co-founded by Hoffman.

Hoffman, a partner with venture capital institution Greylock, shared the stage with Saam Motamedi, another partner at Greylock, and Fortune’s Jeremy Kahn.

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