Smart Talks with IBM: AI & the Productivity Paradox
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🗓️ 25 June 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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In a rapidly evolving world, we need to balance the fear surrounding AI and its role in the workplace with its potential to drive productivity growth. In this special live episode of Smart Talks with IBM, Malcolm Gladwell is joined onstage by Rob Thomas, senior vice president of software and chief commercial officer at IBM, during NY Tech Week. They discuss “the productivity paradox,” the importance of open-source AI, and a future where AI will touch every industry.
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| 0:00.0 | It's brand new season two. I'm Marissa Thalberg and I'm Stephen Wolfedadam and we're excited to be back having bigger voter and always real conversations. |
| 0:08.6 | Straight from the C-suite front lines of marketing media and more. We have great friends joining from people you may know like Wilbur-Valdorama and Bobby Burke. |
| 0:16.8 | And people you'll want to know. |
| 0:18.4 | So grab a coffee or hey, even an April spritz and come join us on America's number one podcast network, I-Heart. |
| 0:24.8 | Listen to brand new on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or production from I Heart Radio. |
| 0:41.0 | Today we are witness to one of those rare moments in history. The rise of an innovative |
| 0:47.5 | technology with the potential to radically transform business and society forever. |
| 0:52.1 | That technology, of course, is artificial intelligence, |
| 0:56.4 | and it's the central focus for this new season of Smart Talks with IBM. |
| 1:01.5 | Join hosts from your favorite Pushkin podcasts as they talk with |
| 1:05.1 | industry experts and leaders to explore how businesses can integrate AI into |
| 1:09.8 | their workflows and help drive real change in this new era of AI. And of course |
| 1:15.2 | host Malcolm Gladwell will be there to guide you through the season and throw |
| 1:19.2 | in his two cents as well. Look out for new episodes of Smart Talks with IBM every other week on |
| 1:25.0 | the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts, and learn more at |
| 1:30.6 | IBM.com slash Smart Talks. Pushkin. |
| 1:48.0 | Welcome, welcome, to Smart Talks with I. To Smart Talks with IBM. |
| 1:50.6 | Hello, hello. |
| 1:54.8 | Welcome to Smart Talks with IBM. |
| 1:56.5 | A podcast from Pushkin Industries, I heart radio and IBM. |
| 2:01.2 | I'm Malcolm Gladwell. This season we're diving back into the world of artificial intelligence |
| 2:06.7 | but with a focus on the powerful concept of open its possibilities, implications, and misconceptions. |
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