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E32 Gareth Rydon - The AI revolution: Unleashing AI for productivity & personal freedom
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“When it comes to AI, we talk about augmenting not replacing. We want this to be about how do I augment the individual and give them superpowers so they can do amazing things and liberate their time? How do we make 5 people worth 10 people?”
Gareth Rydon
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- AI adoption in 2024: Exploring the scale and speed at which AI is being adopted, the different approaches companies are taking & the key implications for organisations in 2024
- Evolution of AI use cases: How AI applications have evolved from basic tasks to more advanced functions and how opportunities for use are expected to continue to evolve into this year
- Organisation challenges in AI: The key barriers that companies are facing in adopting AI and strategies to simplify the process for efficiency & augmentation
- AI vs humanity: Understanding where and how AI technology still falls short compared to human abilities and where the key value of humans still lies
- Engaging kids with AI: The ethics of introducing kids to AI and how to do so in a way that prepares them for the future and harnesses their creativity but protects the formation of their in-person skills & human connections
Key links
Ep. 29 with Sarah Kaur https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GEMbbWssyo
Friyay.AI https://www.friyay.ai/
RambleFix https://ramblefix.com/
Otter AI https://otter.ai/
Ethan Mollick https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick/
Llama by Meta https://llama.meta.com/
DALL·E 3 https://openai.com/dall-e-3
Napster https://www.napster.com/
Ep. 23 with Dr. Gus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25jctgmeEVI
About our guest
Gareth Rydon (https://www.linkedin.com/in/garethrydon) works as a service designer, applying this to building generative AI tools for clients. His happy place is when he is talking to and learning from people so that he can help them solve their problems in sustainable, creative ways.
Having previously held roles at Stone & Chalk, Rightpoint and the ATO, he is now the co-founder of Friyay.ai, a generative AI studio which identifies the human experience to augment and then design generative AI solutions.
About our host
Our host, Chris Hudson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hudson-7464254/), is a Teacher, Experience Designer and Founder of business transformation coaching & consultancy Company Road (www.companyroad.co).
Chris considers himself incredibly fortunate to have worked with some of the world’s most ambitious and successful companies, including Google, Mercedes-Benz, Accenture (Fjord) and Dulux, to name a small few. He continues to teach with Academy Xi in Innovation, CX, Product Management, Design Thinking and Service Design and mentors many business leaders internationally.
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