This podcast strives to bring forward new insights and innovative frameworks for understanding the world of the 21st century. Few things underscore just how radically different things are today from the 20th century than recent advances in artificial intelligence, where an AI ‘copilot’ on your smartphone can now perform myriad tasks for you in a few seconds. This episode’s guest is one of the people best placed globally to help us understand the implications of this new technology. He’s Ash Fontana, author with Penguin Random House of The AI First Company: How to Compete and Win With Artificial Intelligence. Ash has been working in the venture capital space with firms utilising machine learning applications for over a decade. He launched Angel List’s fundraising platform, which manages over $15 billion dollars, and was the first or largest investor in category defining companies like Canva, Kaggle, and Tractable. He remains at the forefront of thinking about how artificial intelligence can reshape economies and economies and societies for the better, and how regulators, investors, and other influential actors should approach the possibilities in the space. 

Ash's website:
https://ashfontana.com/

The AI-First Company: How to Compete and Win with Artificial Intelligence:
https://www.theaifirstcompany.com/

David Watson's episode on ePODstemology about machine learning and the acceleration of discovery:
https://epodstemology.buzzsprout.com/1763534/10465344-machine-learning-and-the-acceleration-of-discovery