EP.29: WORKING WITH A.I. : ROB MAY ON THE HYPE AND REALITY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

The abbreviation A.I. along with its phrase "artificial intelligence" for many invokes fantasies of sentient overlord robots everywhere or benevolent machine assistants or sexy operating systems. It can be difficult to separate hype from reality. Newsfeed cycles don't help either. Stories circulate with titillating headlines as to what A.I. has just done without context as to where it's failed. Regardless we should pay attention, because the ultimate goal of A.I. is to not only make machines intelligent - but as intelligent as humans. Hence my guest, Rob May. Rob is the CEO and Co-founder of Talla, a Boston-based company offering AI-Powered automation for service and support Teams. He is an angel investor in 50 A.I. companies and the Managing Director at Half Court Ventures. Rob also writes InsideAI, the world's most popular email newsletter on artificial intelligence. I wanted to have somebody like Rob on not only because of his deep expertise running his own company but his broad exposure to many different types of A.I. forward companies. Join us as we discuss these topics and more Defining and discerning A.I. and Machine Learning  Hype and current reality  Where is A.I. working  Where and why companies fail with A.I. Perspective on the near and long term futures of A.I. How companies and people can prepare for broad adoption Where does he see most of A.I.'s value creation coming from How he evaluates companies to invest in who say they use AI and much more ... I write about my shows, visit www.larryweeks.com for more 

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