Afraid of AI?
b"Should we really fear AI?\\xa0 What's really happening with Artificial Intelligence today?\\xa0 Why are enterprises struggling to adopt AI in meaningful ways?\\xa0 In this special episode of the Big Data Beard podcast, we share many previously unheard conversations with five of podcast guests about their view of AI today and find out if the fear we hear so often about AI is well founded.\\nOur guests for this show include:\\n\\n* Vikram Mahidar, AI Practice leader at Genpact Consulting\\n* David Fearne, AI Practice leader at Arrow Electronics\\n* Dr. Stephen Thomas, Director of the Masters in AI program at Queens University\\n* Dan Jeavons, Director of Data Science and AI at Shell Corporation\\n* Doug Merritt, CEO of Splunk \\n\\nDon't be afraid of AI.\\xa0 Be prepared.\\nThere's no better way to prepare for AI everywhere than to attend O'reilly Media's\\xa0Artificial Intelligence Conference (https://conferences.oreilly.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-ny) happening in\\xa0NYC April 15 - 18.We are running a contest for a free pass. For a chance to win, just follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/bigdatabeard/) by March 1st 2019, when we will be picking a winner. You can also save 20% on your conference pass by using code PCBEARD at checkout!\\n \\nFollow us on Instagram -\\xa0https://www.instagram.com/bigdatabeard/ (https://www.instagram.com/bigdatabeard/)\\nMusic from this episode is byAndrew Belle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/andrew-belle/37712246).\\xa0 Please go check him out...you'll thank us!"