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May 14, 2023

Podcast: The 'Father of Alexa' isn’t panicking about AI just yet

This week on the pod, we chat to William Tunstall-Pedoe, the “Father of Alexa”, about where AI is going — along with some hints about his stealth AI startup

Steph Bailey

2 min read

We’re in the middle of a polarised debate about superhuman god-like artificial general intelligence (AGI) — either AI is going to take over the world and kill us all in the next five years, or it’s nothing to worry about.

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