Right now the fundamental change that's happening is the augmentation of like human capital in a way that we haven't ever really imagined the same way factories augmented and basically changed how

manual labor is done. It hasn't done away with manual labors completely like that's

not what happened right we just got invented so we're able to

feed more people people don't starve to death when I was growing up there was there was

actual famines and I watched people starve to death's the most horrible feeling in the world.

And everybody was saying that in 20 to 30 years, like there would be mass starvation

across the world.

The reason that didn't happen is because as much as we hate the big farming equipment that saved us, right?

The technology really saved us.

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Ahmed, welcome to the unmistakable Creative.

Thanks so much for taking the time to join us.

Thanks so much for having me, Srini.

Yeah, it is my pleasure to have you here.

I have been really looking forward with this conversation

as somebody who is kind of obsessed with all things AI at this point and I know that you are the

founder of an AI startup but before we get into all of that I wanted to start by

asking what did your parents do for work and how did that end up shaping and

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