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🗓️ 23 October 2024

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Introducing AI & The Productivity Paradox from Smart Talks with IBM.

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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 during NY Tech Week by Rob Thomas, Senior Vice President of Software and Chief Commercial Officer at IBM. 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	Welcome, welcome, welcome to Smart Talks with IBM.
0:07.0	Hello, hello.
0:10.0	Welcome to Smart Talks with IBM, a podcast from Pushkin Industries, I heart
0:15.8	radio and IBM. I'm Malcolm Gladwell. This season we're diving back into the world of
0:21.6	artificial intelligence, but with a focus on the powerful concept of open,
0:26.7	its possibilities, implications, and misconceptions.
0:30.8	We'll look at openness from a variety of angles and explore how the concept is already reshaping industries, ways of doing business, and a very notion of what's possible.
0:41.0	And for the first episode of this season, we're bringing you a
0:44.0	special conversation. I recently sat down with Rob Thomas. Rob is the senior
0:49.4	vice president of software and chief commercial officer of IBM. I spoke to him in front of a live
0:55.5	audience as part of New York Tech Week. We discussed how businesses can harness the
1:00.8	immense productivity benefits of AI while implementing it in a responsible
1:05.8	and ethical manner. We also broke down a fascinating concept that Rob believes about AI,
1:12.1	known as the productivity paradox.
1:15.0	Okay, let's get to the conversation. How we do we do it?
1:25.0	How we doing? Good.
1:27.0	This is our second time we did one of these in the middle of the pandemic, but not, it's all such a blur
1:34.1	neither was can figure out when it was. I know it's hard. Those are like a blurry
1:37.6	years. You don't know what happened, right? But, well it's good to see you, to meet you
1:42.2	again. I wanted to meet you again.
1:43.0	I wanted to start by going back.
1:45.0	You've been at IBM 20 years.
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