Boss-it

In this podcast, Mark has an illuminating conversation with John Taylor of Action.ai, a company that offers the world's most advanced natural language technology, conceived by the best computational linguistics.Never one to shy away from a controversial question, Mark’s opening question, “Does AI really exist?”, doesn’t disappoint. Taking this in his stride, John says it does exist but the term is much misused. He agrees that "AI" is an extraordinarily broad term that has, unfortunately, been attached to just about everything in any context you can imagine.However, the current buzz is justified as the sector is at an extraordinary flexion point, where computational power and algorithms can be applied to use the tech in really useful ways - in healthcare, customer service etc.John notes that knowledge is building really rapidly - and its origins are in academia.Early Foray into EntrepreneurshipJohn started his entreprenuerial career early, setting up a small software company with a friend to pay