A look into Reid Hoffman’s front-row seat on AI: ‘I concluded AI was not going to happen anytime soon’

• In ‘AI Valley,’ journalist Gary Rivlin follows Silicon Valley’s biggest names and their contributions to AI.
• One is LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, a legendary investor once called the “most connected person in Silicon Valley.”
• His front-row seat to AI left Hoffman unimpressed; he viewed it as a toddler, he once told Elon Musk.

The following is a book excerpt.

Reid Hoffman loved his time on campus. He was among the first 10 people at Stanford to…