We speak with Dr. Louis Rosenberg, CEO of Unanimous.ai a company that applies cooperative intelligence principles we find in nature --- specifically the behavior of social insects like honeybees to apply in the human sphere.

Edward Shenderovich is a founder of Knotel, a NYC-based company that is making commercial real estate as accessible on-demand as an Uber. Serving a target population of start-ups with between 10-200 employees, Knotel is pioneering new ways to conceive of risk and reward in commercial real estate.

John Gauntt is joined by Orchanic LLC's Sabri Sansoy, whose diverse background ranges from MIT and bleeding edge tech to advertising and analysis. It's wide-ranging discussion covering AI, machine learning the future of storytelling and more.

John welcomes Greg Lindsay from the New Cities Foundation to the show. Mr. Lindsay is a Senior Fellow with the foundation, focusing on mobility, transportation and the growth of urban areas.

Bill Gates wants to tax robots that displace people out of jobs. Who could argue with that? Plenty of academics and business leaders --- the vast majority of whom have never been laid off --- believe Gates is wrong. We're not so sure. The important thing is that the question is being asked by an industry titan. Definitely, something profound is afoot.

Mark Zuckerberg's 6,000 word manifesto positions Facebook to become social infrastructure for the next evolution of human society at global scale. The idea calls for democratic community governance enforced by AI.

AC Interview: Pre-CES 2018 with Alvin Wang Graylin by The Soundcasting Network

The AC Interview: Alvin Wang Graylin by The Soundcasting Network

John Gauntt sits down with writer and game/movie consultant Brent Friedman and Twitch's Matt McCloskey to talk the art of storytelling in game and film, the future of AI and VR in as it moves into the mainstream, and the evolution of videogame economics.

With the start of the new year, it's time to take stock of what we've seen this past year in AI and it's entry into the mainstream, along with our hopes fears and expectations for 2017.