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Mar 2021
37m 35s

Artificial Intelligence - Cade Metz

Pod Rowe Productions
About this episode
Cade Metz is an expert on Artificial Intelligence, writer for the New York Times and author of a new book on the rise of Artificial Intelligence called Genius Makers. In this episode, you're going to hear how AI impacts you both wittingly and unwittingly, where we currently are in the AI journey and what the future holds for big tech, data and the impacts of AI on our daily lives.

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