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Now here are your hosts, Eric Townsend and Patrick Sorezna.

Macro Voices episode 446 was pre-produced to air on September 19th, 2024. I'm Eric Townsend.

Patrick and the team are off again. I'm Eric Townsend.

Patrick and the team are off again this week running another big picture trading live event

and leaving me without a co-host for this week's show.

So freelancer.com founder Matt Berry will return as this

week's feature interview guest and will be doing another long-form interview

on the Artificial Intelligence Revolution, where we stand in the story and what comes next.

We'll be back to our regular show format next week when Globetrotting International Playboy

Patrick Sorezna returns to to the Macro Voices News Desk.

Meanwhile, my long-form interview with Matt Berry is coming up next. And now with this week's special guest, here's your host, Eric Townsend.

Joining me now is Freelancer.com, founder, and AI expert,

Matt Berry.

Matt, it's been eight months since we spoke about AI last. It seems like there's been a disturbance in the force, some kind of a blow-off.

I don't know if it was a top or just an intermediate step along the way, but it seems like the enthusiasm is

starting to abate a little bit on AI. Is this the beginning of the end of the

beginning or something different? Let's recap what's happened since we spoke last.

Well it's certainly interesting times. I think perhaps the best way to

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