The AI-Powered Micro-Business with Ash Fontana

Artificial Intelligence is already part of our lives in the tools and services we use every day. As AI development accelerates, how can authors and small businesses use it as leverage to expand income and opportunities? Ash Fontana gives some ideas in this interview on The AI-First Company. In the intro, How GPT-3 is quietly ushering in the A.I. revolution [Digital Trends]; The Computers Are Getting Better At Writing [The New Yorker]; The Chinese equivalent on GPT-3, PanGu-α [Venture Beat]; List of AI writing tools and GPT-3 Examples. Ash Fontana is a startup investor and managing director of Zetta, an investment fund focusing on AI. He's also the author of The AI-First Company: How to Compete and Win with Artificial Intelligence. You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below. Show Notes * How AI development has accelerated due to the pandemic* How Natural Language Generation and other aspects of AI can help authors with marketing and content creation * How AI could help stop plagiarism* Licensing works in copyright for training AI models and the impact of AI on copyright law* Generative Adversarial Networks* A positive view of an AI powered future You can find Ash Fontana at AshFontana.com and on Twitter @ashfontana. You can also find the book website at TheAIFirstCompany.com Transcript of Interview with Ash Fontana Joanna Penn: Ash Fontana is a startup investor and managing director of Zetta, an investment fund focusing on AI. He's also the author of The AI-First Company: How to Compete and Win with Artificial Intelligence. Welcome, Ash. Ash Fontana: Hey, Joanna. Thank you very much for having me. Joanna Penn: I'm excited to talk to you today. Let's start with a quote from the book. ‘We thought AI was just around the corner for a long time, but it turns out that it was just getting started.' Now, many people in my community think, ‘AI will happen in a decade or longer,' but, What are you excited about right now and have things accelerated because of the pandemic? Ash Fontana: In many ways, AI will happen in a decade or longer and it'll keep happening for many decades going forward. We're just at the start of what I call the AI-first century. We're only partway through that. So bringing it back to today, where are we, and this AI-first century, and what's exciting today, and what's changing today, I'm still excited by a lot of the simple stuff,