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

and subscribe to make sure you get all our episodes.

I'll see you on the other side.

When you understand how the machine really works,

you're going to fear it less.

This triangle of technology, design, and business,

I can hear the technology folks,

this is amazing, let's do more of it I'm going to hear the design social science part of it saying we have to ask questions

and I can hear on the business product side, well how is it going to lead to more profitable business,

have your customers. Navigating those three points is so critical for AI to make a true difference.

Building with AI is important,

so you'll know where the proverbial puck is bouncing.

It isn't just like moving, it's like bouncing off of everything and it's moving at light speed.

Unless you're there near the models that are evolving, you're not going to know where this is going to end up. That's John Myeda, VP of Design and Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft.

John is working at the center of AI development including a new programming tool

called Symantic Colonel and is also author of the book How to Speak Machine.

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

of Scales of Scale Rapid Response.

I wanted to talk to John because understanding AI and where it's going has become an essential task for all of us.

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