EP 953 AI’s Coming Disruption Will Change More Than We Can Imagine

 At the moment many of us see and use AI as a quicker and more comprehensive search engine. Truth is, it really is a game changer.  So much so that our guest, Fred Voccola, author of “The Coming Disruption: How AI Will Force Organizations to Change Everything or Face Destruction,” says, (are you sitting down), AI is the single most important development in the history of our species.  He posits that it will have more impact than the steam engine, electricity, penicillin, and the Internet itself.  Recently, Elon Musk said that AI is good enough TODAY to replace half of white-collar jobs, and he argues that it’s ‘pointless’ to go to medical school except for social reasons.  He suggests that robots will being doing surgery at scale within three years.  Is all of this imaginable? Or remotely possible? And talk about societal dislocation.  All this change based on something that doesn’t require huge investments in new infrastructure but simply changes in leadership and adoption of what is available to us.  And it’s all coming at breakneck speed.  Are you ready?  Find out today on this podcast.

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