August 2024 Audio & Video.

The top 5 videos and podcasts I consumed in August.

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Gabriel Botsie
September 03, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes

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The idea behind this series is simple - to share the best audio and video content (business and technology) I've consumed from the previous month.

Each month, I'll pick out five pieces of content, either a mixture of audio and video or from just one category. I'll share why they're included and what you can learn from them.

Feel free to share your own content inspirations!

A short informative video with 4 strategies to improve your business performance.

Read the full article from Harvard Business Review here 

 [2 minute video]

BigThink make the case for Predictive AI over Generative AI.

Guest Eric Siegel explains how UPS streamlined their delivery operations, by predicting the outcome of future deliveries - saving the company $350 million in delivery costs.

[8 minute video]

Matt Wolfe discusses Flux.1 the new open source image generation model from Black Forest Labs.

Using glif (a workflow framework), Matt asks whether Flux.1 is “the midjourney killer?”

I’ll leave you to answer this question for yourself. All I’ll say is that combining Flux.1 with glif brings impressive results 😲

[18 minute video]

Conversation with John Thompson, Artificial Intelligence Leader at EY. Thompson discusses how EY implemented Generative AI for 275,000 of EY's 420,000 employees using Azure OpenAI. 

Topics covered include :

[39 minute podcast]

#233 Generative AI at EY with John Thompson, Head of AI at EY

By now, many of us are convinced that generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT are useful at work. However, many executives are rightfully worried about the risks..

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/dataframed/id1336150688?i=1000664707403

Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski on Getting AI to Do the Work of 700 Customer Service Reps

In February, Sebastian Siemiatkowski boldly announced that Klarna’s new OpenAI-powered assistant handled two thirds of the Swedish fintech’s customer service ch

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/training-data/id1750736528?i=1000663069932

In this podcast from Training Data, Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski discusses Klarna’s business and how they replaced 700 customer service reps, saving $40 million and reducing resolution time to 2 minutes (from 14 minutes).

Listen for implementation insights, a vision of how Generative AI will be used for productivity gains.

[52 minute podcast]

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