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Hi there, I'm Azim Azar, and you're listening to the Exponential View podcast.

Now every week I have a deep conversation with a brilliant mind exploring how

exponential technologies are shaping on near future.

That subject forms the basis of my new book, The Exponential Age,

or Exponential if you're outside of the US and Canada.

The book has been thankfully very well received, and if you are in the UK,

I would strongly recommend heading over to Amazon UK straight after this podcast.

The Kindle version of my book is currently on sale for just 99p instead of 20 pounds,

which is a fantastic bargain for UK listeners.

Now, back on to today's podcast.

In the past 10 or so years, artificial intelligence has really changed the way

whole industries work.

And that technology still has so much more room to run.

Capital is streaming both into AI research and startups and in established firms as well.

And we could be, perhaps we've even reached the cusp of an inflection point.

A point of no return that means this technology is deeply embedded in the way we live

and the way we work.

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