David Smith (@revodavid) is the Cloud Developer Advocate and R Community Lead at Microsoft. Prior to Microsoft, David was the Chief Community Officer (and is current editor-in-chief) of Revolution Analytics, daily news about using open source R for big data analysis, predictive modeling, data science, and visualization since 2008. David has a knack for building user communities and is currently the Vice President of Community for REvolution Computing, David focuses on promoting and supporting the commercial use of the open-source data analysis software system R. David is a co-author of the tutorial manual An Introduction to R, one of the originating developers of ESS: Emacs Speaks Statistics and is also a member of the board of the R Consortium. [spreaker type=player resource=”episode_id=18590634″ width=”100%” height=”200px” theme=”light” playlist=”false” playlist-continuous=”false” autoplay=”false” live-autoplay=”false” chapters-image=”true” episode-image-position=”right” hide-logo=”false” hide-likes=”false” hide-comments=”false” hide-sharing=”false” hide-download=”true”] Subscribe onApple Podcast | Google Podcast | Android | Overcast | Spotify | YoutubeYou can listen right here on iTunesIn our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
The ethical problems of analyzing data
Why AI will affect so many massive industries
How governments need to start thinking about AI/ML
The reason David thinks artificial intelligence will create more jobs than it destroys
Why we’re still decades off from artificial general intelligence
The tech giant effect on AI and data science
How Microsoft is leading the way towards tech future
David’s thoughts on the future of tech monopolies
Why the battle for the future is based on attracting developers
Where cloud computing is headed from here
Why open ecosystems and opensource almost always wins
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David Smith (@revodavid) is the Cloud Developer Advocate and R Community Lead at Microsoft. Prior to Microsoft, David was the Chief Community Officer (and is current editor-in-chief) of Revolution Analytics, daily news about using open source R for big data analysis, predictive modeling, data science, and visualization since 2008. David has a knack for building user communities and is currently the Vice President of Community for REvolution Computing, David focuses on promoting and supporting the commercial use of the open-source data analysis software system R. David is a co-author of the tutorial manual An Introduction to R, one of the originating developers of ESS: Emacs Speaks Statistics and is also a member of the board of the R Consortium. [spreaker type=player resource=”episode_id=18590634″ width=”100%” height=”200px” theme=”light” playlist=”false” playlist-continuous=”false” autoplay=”false” live-autoplay=”false” chapters-image=”true” episode-image-position=”right” hide-logo=”false” hide-likes=”false” hide-comments=”false” hide-sharing=”false” hide-download=”true”] Subscribe on Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Android | Overcast | Spotify | Youtube 
You can listen right here on iTunes In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
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