Now, though, as you're articulating, you can have one common message in your native tongue

and be able to communicate to, again, in effect the entire globe in their native language.

This is the Playbook. Man, do I have a fast-growing company and a fast-growing executive here?

We're here with the founder and also president of Veritone, a company that I work with,

Ryan Steeleberg, welcome to the Playbook. It is great to be here and it's great to be at SoFi

Stadium again. Yeah, I used to have a football field behind me, but now I've got Kenny Chesney's

stage, which is kind of cool because the first time I've been in here when they're building out

the stage in the platform, speaking of building out a stage in a platform, that's really what

Veritone is doing for me and so many others. I think it's so important to understand communication

today, comparatively to the past, that I spent many years trying to learn a language.

And I'm a little bit frustrated today after working with you. I have to admit because

you made all the years of Spanish literally worthless to me. And unless there was some part of my

brain that was enhanced by learning another language, because your technology allows me to

communicate with other people and other languages instantaneously in my voice with the connotation

whether it's correct or not, that is representative of who I am. How important is that platform,

is that capability today compared to how you know, learning a separate language was even ten years?

You know, yeah, it's a great question. I mean, the bigger question is, you know, is AI truly

a benefit to all of us in all the different capacities? Or frankly, is it minimizing us, right?

I mean, it's same thing for you choosing not to learn a different language because now

using technologies like ours, that we can create a great model of your voice and you can speak

in one of 38 different languages. And you don't even have to know the language anymore.

So I do believe obviously, it's like, it's like reading. There is a developmental aspect of

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