Today we have Jeremy Bornstein who is one of my all time favorite people. I had the good fortune of meeting Jeremy training Aikido back in the nineties.

Jeremy had started a company with his brother and another friend of ours in San Francisco called Xigo in the year 2000. I went to work for them. We were using artificial intelligence to trade on the stock market. 

The first half of this is about our backgrounds, his background growing up with computers, how he got into it, how he learned the things he did. Jeremy had a super interesting career back at Apple in the Advanced Technology Group back in the nineties when there was really interesting things going on there and he invented some cool technology.

In the last half we talk about artificial intelligence, where it came from and where it's going. Also some of Jeremy's other interests, in addition to Aikido, archery, Japanese and Western style, a bunch of different work learning languages like Japanese, French, Mandarin, Spanish, and Latin. He's learned to play the shakuhachi and the didgeridoo.

He's built massively multiplayer online games, automated trading systems, cryptographic systems and a wide variety of other things. I hope you have a good time listening to two friends have a long chat.