AI hype vs. reality, returning to the office, and a driving tour of Amazon HQ
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4.4 • 116 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we're coming to you from our mobile recording studio, aka Todd's car, as he and John make the most of their time in a clogged parking garage to discuss the comments they had just heard from T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert at the Technology Alliance annual State of Technology luncheon.
Topics include artificial intelligence, national security concerns over Chinese hacking, downtown safety, and getting employees back to the office. From there, we take an impromptu driving tour of Amazon HQ to see things first-hand.
Stories discussed on this week's show:
- How T-Mobile plans to use AI to improve one of its most important business metrics
- ‘It’s your responsibility’: T-Mobile CEO exhorts tech industry leaders to return to the office
- Car and foot traffic data show impact of Amazon’s return to office mandate on Seattle commutes
- Microsoft says critical U.S. infrastructure targeted by Chinese hackers
- Amazon responds to walkout plan: ‘We respect our employees’ rights to express their opinions’
With GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop and John Cook. Audio clips of Sievert provided by the Tech Alliance. See GeekWire.com for more coverage.
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| 0:00.0 | You want to yell out the window and ask these folks what they think about working from the office? |
| 0:05.0 | Hey, what do you guys think about working from the office? |
| 0:09.0 | You excited to be back? |
| 0:10.0 | You're excited to be back? |
| 0:12.0 | Awesome. Cool. You're backside to be back? |
| 0:12.5 | Awesome. |
| 0:13.4 | Cool. |
| 0:14.4 | Great idea. |
| 0:16.4 | Great idea. |
| 0:17.4 | No, that is some quality journalism. We are coming to you from the Weston parking garage. |
| 0:33.2 | We're stuck in traffic. And so we decided that we would just do the podcast right now. |
| 0:36.9 | Right here in your Toyota Corolla. Camry. Oh, Camry, I apologize. |
| 0:41.5 | 2007 Camry. Loving it. Cameron. T-Mobile CEO with Jonathan Spisato, our business partner at GeekWire. |
| 0:54.4 | He did an interview at the Tech Alliance. |
| 0:56.6 | That's why we're stuck in the Weston parking garage. |
| 0:59.6 | He had some very clear thoughts about how AI is going to impact T-Mobile. He talked a lot about |
| 1:05.2 | the churn which is the bane of wireless companies and of subscription services in |
| 1:10.3 | general and the fact that they would like to know on a very individual basis how and why customers are leaving. |
| 1:19.0 | You know, we're the only ones in the industry right now with declining churn. |
| 1:22.0 | That means less people leaving us |
| 1:23.2 | this year than last year that's very good but still because we're very big company |
| 1:27.0 | millions of people left us last year and that just gnaws at us. |
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