Inventing Fire with AI

On this episode of Inventing Fire with AI, I give my reaction to an interview with Sam Altman, founder Open AI, the company behind ChatGPT. He lays out his vision for the future of AI, envisioning a future where college graduates can use AI to build companies. He notes how while every industrial revolution has left some behind, the benefits and opportunities far outweigh the cost. As someone on th...

Welcome to Episode 2 of Inventing Fire With AI. This episode is taken from a discussion I had at Medellin Tech Talk ‘25 in Colombia with Jorge Armando González Pino, Camilo Jaramillo, and Luis Robles. AI isn’t just a question of which company will emerge as the winner, but which country.    AI is replacing search engines, but also, people are telling their AI chatbots their most personal informati...

In this episode of the Inventing Fire podcast, taken from my keynote at the EDGE Leadership Summit 2025, I introduce myself and share the story behind Mill5—an AI-first company founded a decade ago, long before most people were even talking about artificial intelligence. I explain how, through early AI applications like NLP, we were able to detect major events like the Boston Marathon bombing befo...

AI may be the biggest technological leap forward in human history since we learned to harness the power of fire.   AI is the biggest technological leap forward in human history since we learned to harness the power of fire. AI is able to solve challenges that were thought to be impossible before, advancing our understanding of medicine, climate change, food production, just to name a few. But, at...