Lightning Round Insights

Key Moments: 

Jeremy Kahn

• The history of AI: the Turing Test and the Eliza Effect with Jeremy Khan (1:50)
• Jeremy’s view on how we can learn from lessons of the past (9:00)
• It starts with data and people: leveraging AI to increase productivity (16:00)

Sol Rashidi

• Sol Rashidi on failing to succeed in AI (31:00)
• The need for rogue executives (37:00)
• Sol’s view on prioritizing GenAI use cases and measuring ROI (42:50)

Bernard Marr

• Bernard Marr on demystifying AI (60:02)
• Is society ready for AI’s impact on augmenting jobs? (66:00)
• AI’s impact on personalization of medicine, treatment and drug discovery (72:00)

Key Quotes: 

Jeremy Kahn

• “We're in a position where we can take action while this technology is still being shaped, to try to set some sensible guardrails. If we do that, we will see a lot of benefit from this technology. If we wait, we’re going to be in a situation like with social media. We will have a deskilling of essential human cognitive abilities.”
• We don’t talk enough about how to train people to use AI software. The organizations that think hardest about that are going to be very successful.”

Sol Rashidi 

• “Usually I start the conversations of how ROI shouldn't just be a financial measure. There's three ROI's in my opinion. There's a financial ROI, there's a cultural ROI, and there's a relevancy ROI.”
• “I am adamant that business value is not the number one marker. Everything needs to be scored and graded by criticality and complexity. And your criticality is a measure of ‘what is the impact if we don't do this?’”

Bernard Marr

• “What we are seeing is we will see an augmentation of pretty much every single job. I can't think of many jobs that will not be augmented by GenAI. We need to really expect change as individuals.”
• “We must create a world where education is seen as something that never stops, that carries on. I believe that we are currently entering a hyper evolution cycle, with artificial intelligence right at the center of it.”

Mentions: 

'Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future' by Jeremy Kahn 

'Your AI Survival Guide: Scraped Knees, Bruised Elbows, and Lessons Learned from Real-World AI Deployments' by Sol Rashidi

'Generative AI in Practice: 100+ Amazing Ways Generative Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business and Society' by Bernard Marr

Bios: 

About Jeremy Kahn 

• Jeremy Kahn is an award-winning journalist for Fortune magazine, where he covers AI and other emerging technologies. Previously, he wrote about technology, including AI, for Bloomberg. His writing on a range of subjects has also appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek,The Atlantic, Smithsonian magazine, The Boston Globe, The New Republic, and Slate. An Ohio native, he now lives with his family in Oxford, England.

About Sol Rashidi

• With 10 patents granted and winning numerous awards that include: 'Forbes AI Maverick & Visionary of the 21st Century', 'Top 100 People in AI', 'Global 100 Power List', 'Top 75 Innovators', 'CAO of the Year', 'Top 5 CDO's', 'Top 65 Most Influential Women', Sol Rashidi is an seasoned executive, leader, and influencer within the AI, data, and technology space. Sol’s experience comes from real-world deployments where she has had to roll up her sleeves and do the work, while keeping the strategic intent in mind. Sol is currently Head of Technology for Startups, North America, at AWS.

About Bernard Marr

• Bernard Marr is a multi-award-winning and internationally best-selling author of over 20 books, who writes a regular column for Forbes and advises and works with many of the world’s best-known organizations. He has a combined following of 4 million people across his social media channels and newsletters and was ranked by LinkedIn as one of the top 5 business influencers in the world.

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