Do you work at a job? Then you're probably involved in some kind of business operations, and there's a 99.999% chance that your job will be impacted by AI.

So how do you leverage AI to make your job easier? If you're a business leader, how do you create an AI strategy for your company or department? Where should you even begin?

I spoke with an expert in all of this, Rachel Woods, CEO of The AI Exchange, who's a consultant and educator for how businesses can embrace AI. 

We get into it!

At a high level, Rachel shares the AI strategies and principles that businesses should think about, as opposed to just using the tools (4:40), how to think about the question of whether AI will take our jobs (11:00), some of her favorite AI tools for boosting productivity (14:00), the importance of creating what she calls "bespoke systems" (18:00), what AI is surpassingly good at... and surprisingly bad at (28:34), and advice for those in business just starting out with AI (39:40).

Bonus? At the end of the show, Rachel provides a promo-code for AI-Curious listeners to use for the educational courses at The AI Exchange.

Super practical episode, hope you enjoy.

You can find Rachel Woods at:
https://twitter.com/rachel_l_woods

The AI Exchange:
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Think of this as an "AI case study" -- a way to make the abstractness of AI concrete by going deep on a hyper-specific example.

Swupnil Sahai is a former Tesla engineer. He worked directly with Elon Musk on the AI that powers self-driving cars.

He then created "Swingvision," an AI-powered tennis app, which recently won Apple's prestigious Design Award. (Other winners include heavyhitters like Headspace and Duolingo.)

The app records your tennis match. It then lets you analyze the results, review your form, and even challenge line calls in real-time. It's now being used by 100+ division 1 college tennis programs.

All of this is powered by AI. So I spoke with Sahai about how the AI works (7:00), what he learned about AI from Tesla and Musk (11:45), how neural networks come into play (15:30), how they built their data model (19:40), what AI is good at and what it's surprisingly bad at (23:30), and his advice for AI founders and entrepreneurs (36:00).

SwingVision:
https://swing.tennis

SwingVision wins Apple Design Award:
https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/06/apple-reveals-its-2023-apple-design-award-winners/#:~:text=Image%20Credits%3A%20SwingVision,of%20strategy%20to%20the%20game.

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Welcome to AI-Curious,  a podcast that explores the good, the bad, and the creepy of artificial intelligence.  

For the debut episode, I'll introduce the conceit of the show, and then we'll speak to some Hollywood producers who are pioneers of using AI:  the cofounders of Toonstar Studios, CEO John Attanasio and COO Luisa Huang.

John and Luisa bring a somewhat unique perspective of AI in Hollywood. For years, they've used AI *not* to replace writers and actors... but instead to speed up production and build communities. They share first how AI helped lower the barriers to entry for animation (5:30), then how their shows and franchises (The Gimmicks, Space Junk, Fortun3) have embraced AI (11:10), how they think about using AI ethically and responsibly (30:00), their thoughts on the writers and actors strike and a possible way forward (37:30), and finally some ideas of what AI in Hollywood could look like in the future (44:30).

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