Supercompanies with Greg Shove

After just five days on the job as Head of AI at Section, Michael Domanic joins Greg for their first one-on-one together. He shares about his experience as VP of Generative Business strategy at User Testing, and how they measured the ROI on AI adoption in the office. Plus, how many agents per employee are we likely to have in the future?Do you have questions about AI or adoption challenges at work? Drop us a line at podcast at sectionai dot com. Supercompanies is on YouTube too: youtube.com/@supercompaniespod.Michael's websiteMichael's LinkedIn

Latent Supercompanies are among us. In this conversation with Greg Shove, Wade Foster, co-founder and CEO of Zapier, shares how he’s found massive success integrating AI internally and with customers.Zapier was already a success story. Three friends co-founded the automation company in college and built it into a $5B company by working nimbly and embracing remote work early on. Now, Wade is fully embracing wide AI adoption. Learn how Zapier was able to drive 50% employee adoption in just a week, and the strategies that have been key to Zapier’s continued success.Links:Zapier.comWade's website

Some of the challenges with developing better AI have already been faced by other new technologies - like autonomous vehicles. Whether building human-in-the-loop systems or emergent scaling issues, AV companies like Waymore and Zoox are pioneering real-world solutions. What should the broader industry be learning from them?Tech and policy reporter Tim Lee (Understanding AI, Ars Technica, Washington Post)) joins to discuss his and Greg’s shared appreciation for autonomous vehicles. Tim has covered AVs for years, and breaks down what a company like Waymo can show us about what’s ahead for AI at large.Links:Understanding AI newsletterTim’s Twitter

AI has the power to completely reshape the tasks we do - and how we approach our work in the first place. Greg taps Ed’s expertise as a custom AI agent developer to understand what leaders should know about what agents can do for us today. How can we convert inference into business value today?Ed shares the VVV framework he uses as part of his process for automating workflows. Plus, which tech industries might own the future - SaaS, Cloud, AI?Episode links:Ed’s LinkedInMachine & Partners website

AI is driving an arms race in classrooms, but what about the tech’s potential to give individualized instruction? What other ways might new technology change how we learn for the better? What’s ahead for the education tech landscape?Claire Zau, venture partner at GSV Ventures and author of the AI & Education newsletter, specializes in educational technology investment. She joins Greg from New York to discuss what’s next for education.Episode Links:Claire's newsletter AI & EducationClaire's Instagram Zauey TalksGSV Venture's website

Business strategist and best-selling author Sangeet Paul Choudary joins Greg to discuss why AI is such a big deal for corporate structures and platforms. As AI requires organizations to fundamentally rethink how their structures work, it enables savvy competitors to exploit new operating paradigms. And as these tools allow users to cross traditional work boundaries, the impacts of AI to knowledge work promise to be many.How will new efficiencies change client demands, and how will firms and individuals structure their work? What should we do when the AI bubble bursts? Sangeet shares what he tells execs and heads of state, and discusses ideas from his book Reshuffle.Episode links:Sangeet’s LinkedInPlatform Thinking LabsSangeet’s Substack

Are we going to lose our minds to artificial intelligence? Cognitive offloading is the biggest bogeyman in AI right now. And with good reason - it took us 10 years to realize what social media had done to our brains, and by then it was too late.New studies from MIT say ChatGPT power users have decreased brainwave activity – and are showing signs of dependence. So can we use AI without giving up our cognitive skills? How do we “borrow 30 points of IQ” from AI without losing our minds completely?Greg speaks with Dr. Sahar Yousef, cognitive neuroscientist and lecturer at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and one of the world’s leading experts on cognitive training and the science of productivity. Sahar shares what we can learn from the research, what's she's seeing in the lab, and how she's handling AI with her students. How can we use AI for our benefit, and what's on the line?Episode links:Dr. Sahar Yousef's websiteMIT/OpenAI study on ChatGPT power usersTechPolicy report on AI addictionResearchers propose Gen AI Addiction Syndrome