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What AI Really Is, Whose Making It Happen and What It Means For The Future: My conversation with Cade Metz

What AI Really Is, Whose Making It Happen and What It Means For The Future: My conversation with Cade Metz

Released Sunday, 18th July 2021
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What AI Really Is, Whose Making It Happen and What It Means For The Future: My conversation with Cade Metz

What AI Really Is, Whose Making It Happen and What It Means For The Future: My conversation with Cade Metz

What AI Really Is, Whose Making It Happen and What It Means For The Future: My conversation with Cade Metz

What AI Really Is, Whose Making It Happen and What It Means For The Future: My conversation with Cade Metz

Sunday, 18th July 2021
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When Hal asked Astronaut David Bowman to “open the pod bay doors,” it was as if our most primal fear of machines came rushing headlong into the 20th century. Today, in our 21st-century world, we understand the basics of the artificial intelligence behind HAL.

We see on display every day our interaction with Siri and Alexa, our reliance on algorithms in flying our planes and soon our self-driving cars.

It’s the full blossoming of the promised brave new world.

But AI is just the Internet in1995. While it dominates every conversation about technology, commerce, the workplace and the economy today, there is an awful lot of misinformation.

Its impact can be felt in manufacturing, retail, healthcare, automotive, robotics, finance and science, as well as defense and national security.

The academic progress of AI is taking place every day in places like Stanford, Google, Amazon and Facebook. And the proverbial elephant in the room with respect to AI is always China and its deep, rich and no holds barred commitment to be the world leader in AI

But nothing beats understanding AI’s future like seeing how we got where we are today, who are the people making it happen and what it portents for its future.

That is what NY Times journalist Cade Metz does in his book Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World 

My conversation with Cade Metz:

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