Hi, it's Bob Safian. You've been hearing me as the host of rapid response in this feed for a few years now,

with short newsy interviews alongside the deeper dives of Masters of Scale. Well, I'm excited to share that rapid response is expanding into its own feed.

We'll be putting out shows twice a week, focusing on the urgent issues that business leaders are dealing with in real time.

So search for rapid response in your podcast player

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I'll see you on the other side.

Even if your business is not AI driven,

thinking about how AI can accelerate or change or help you innovate on your core product is really key.

To me the mindset is an experimentation mindset, exploration mindset, knowing that you'll try things

that may or may not work, knowing that you are an early

adopter and there's advantages to that, but there's also disadvantages.

I'm always asked this question, like, when is AI going to become mainstream like should we wait is it like in three years I'm like no it's already mainstream you got to be trying it now

That's Rana L. Kaljubi, deputy CEO of Smartai, an AI-based pioneer.

Smartai has been reassessing its own products and processes,

as the new wave of generative AI has rolled through.

I'm Bob Safian, former editor of Fast Company, founder of the Flux Group and host of Masters

of Scale Rapid Response.

I wanted to talk to Rana to get a peek inside what operating with AI every day looks like

for a business today.

Rana is an established AI expert as an operator and as a thought leader.

She essentially created the subfield of emotional AI co-founding affectiva which spun out of MIT,

and she's an early stage investor in some 30 AI related

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