Airbnb head criticizes business that is hype on crypto and AIThe Airbnb CEO deemed companies that make a fuss in the pursuit of crypto, the meta-universe, and artificial intelligence to be futile.
The head of Airbnb Brian Chesky criticized the companies that advertise themselves while trying to keep up with technological innovations. He said this at a conference held by American bank Morgan Stanley, writes Yahoo Finance.
According to Chesky, the pioneers in the market of artificial intelligence (AI) will be companies with an innovative corporate culture. Companies that have been actively discussing the prospects for cryptocurrencies and the meta-universe in 2022 will be left out of the progress, he said.
"If a company was discussing cryptocurrency last year and artificial intelligence this year, they probably don't understand anything [in either direction]," Chesky said.
Chesky did not elaborate on which companies he was talking about. Earlier, U.S. billionaire Elon Musk, who owns Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX, said that he is now more interested in AI than cryptocurrencies. The ChatGPT chatbot is also being looked at by Meta* (recognized by the Russian authorities as extremist and banned in the country), which previously actively promoted the idea of its steblecoin and meta-universe.
Airbnb believes that artificial intelligence will help to better process users' personal data. Chesky also said that the AI will help the company to improve monetization of services, but how exactly, the head of Airbnb did not specify.
Recall that the excitement on the Internet around the AI broke out after the public release of ChatGPT. The bot is able to engage the interlocutor in a conversation just as a person would. The answers of the program are not always perfectly accurate, but it still does its job well and creates a sense of conversation with a real interlocutor. ChatGPT was created by OpenAI, a San Francisco-based company co-founded by Ilon Musk and Sam Altman.
