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This is the show for busy oil pros who want to quickly keep their figure on the pulse of the industry. Thanks for joining us for

episode 393. We are sitting here at the shack in the back. We're outside of Odessa, Texas.

If you're listening to us and you don't know where that is, it's right smack in the middle of the

Permian.

We have an all-store panel.

We're getting ready to have some really cool discussions. And audience, by the way, and when I say audience, I mean, the ones that are here live, not the one that's listened to this later remotely. I want this to be interactive. If you have any questions, raise your hand. Paige will walk over to you with the microphone. You can engage with our panelists here.

But I want to start with literally the definition panelists. When somebody says AI, what is AI?

In which country? I say that because in Latin America and Argentina, it's EI, right? So it's kind of interesting. But artificial intelligence, gosh,

what would we think? Skynet's been built and here comes the age of the robot and taking over the

world. And the reality is that's not the case right now. Artificial intelligence is still grounded

in data foundations, exploratory, how we actually look at changing advancements in data

and just in science in general and how that would actually apply in operations.

I would say it's still very much marketing, but at the same time, it is advancing so quickly

that if we don't get the ground and the foundation understood

along with the data governance around that, it would impact our operations into some

aspects that we're not prepared for. AI to me is the growth, natural growth and development

of what's been going on for what, 20 plus years. We're looking at how we're looking at our data aggregation and development so AI to me is not i it's not the artificial

intelligence of our childhood but it is a growth and development process that's really been

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