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Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Ash Fontana | THE AI-FIRST COMPANY: How to Compete and Win with Artificial Intelligence

Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Clay Clark

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

A leader in the world of artificial intelligence Ash Fontana joins us to share about his new book, THE AI-FIRST COMPANY: How to Compete and Win with Artificial Intelligence.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Alright, through our nation on today's show, we're going to discuss a topic that I'm frankly not that interested in because I guess I'm interested in it because it's terrifying, but it's not something that I'm a big fan of.

0:13.0

It's artificial intelligence, and we're interviewing a guest today who's pointing out to us that artificial intelligence can be used for good purposes, and this guy's had a lot of success in his career, so maybe he has a point.

0:27.0

He's written a new book called AI First. It's called the AI First Company, how to compete and win with artificial intelligence.

0:34.0

Now, Andrew, I want to ask you this. What are your thoughts on artificial intelligence? Are you a fan of artificial intelligence as a concept or not so much?

0:42.0

Not so much. Freaks me out.

0:44.0

Why does it freak you out?

0:45.0

I just don't like the idea of non-human thinking.

0:49.0

Well, on today's show, we're interviewing Ash Fontana, who's at the cutting edge of all things related to the AI First Company, so some of you might listen to this show and cheer.

1:00.0

You might say, yes, finally, an AI show on the business show, and some of you might say, boom, boom, some of you can't get Alexis to stop listening to you.

1:11.0

Some of you have turned on the assistant thing where you say, call Carl.

1:15.0

It's me.

1:16.0

And you can't turn it off now, and it randomly asks you questions while you're making out with your wife, and it's like, do you want guacamole?

1:23.0

What? Who does this thing listening?

1:25.0

You're in that habit where it's interrupting you. You're trying to watch a movie, and it's asking you, like, do you want to call Carl?

1:30.0

Is it freak you out?

1:31.0

I threw it away.

1:32.0

You threw it away.

1:33.0

I threw the Alexa in the trash.

1:34.0

You did.

1:35.0

It was working. I'm sure somebody's enjoying it.

1:37.0

I got an Alexa as a gift, and I threw it away too.

1:39.0

Oh, I'm just as soon as I got to get that crap out of here.

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